Test 6 · ★ · Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop
A cartoon shows a chatbot peering out of a window to check the rain. What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, chatbot · What happens: show, peer, check, be · To what, where: chatbot, rain
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 8 «Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop» of the AI course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: A cartoon shows a chatbot peering out of a window to check the rain.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chatbot | det |
| 5 | chatbot | chatbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | peering | peer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 chatbot | acl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 window | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 window | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 window | det |
| 10 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peering | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 check | mark |
| 12 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 peering | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rain | det |
| 14 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 check | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | a chatbot | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chatbot=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | peer | gerund | a chatbot not said here | out a window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out window=Theme | ||||
| 3 | check | to-infinitive | a chatbot not said here | the rain | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: What's wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Chatbots can see only clouds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chatbots | chatbot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 clouds | advmod |
| 5 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 see | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | Chatbots | clouds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloud=Stimulus |
Option 2
Chatbots only look out of doors, never out of windows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chatbots | chatbot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 look | advmod |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 doors | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 doors | case |
| 6 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 windows | punct |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 windows | advmod |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 windows | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 windows | case |
| 11 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | present | Chatbots | doors | windows | tree rules |
Option 3
Nothing, that's how they check
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 how | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 how | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 how | cop |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 check | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 check | nsubj |
| 7 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Nothing | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | check | present | they | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Chatbots have no eyes; some only look up weather online
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chatbots | chatbot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 eyes | det |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 look | nsubj |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 look | advmod |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 look | compound:prt |
| 10 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | obj |
| 11 | online | online | ADV | _ | 8 look | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Chatbots | no eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look up | present | some | weather | online property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme weather=Attribute |
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