Test 7 · ★ · Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop
Mia's bot suddenly sounds different after the weekend. Most likely reason?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bot · What happens: sound
This is test 7 · ★ 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: Mia's bot suddenly sounds different after the weekend.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bot | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mia | case |
| 3 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sounds | nsubj |
| 4 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 sounds | advmod |
| 5 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sounds | xcomp |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 weekend | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 weekend | det |
| 9 | weekend | weekend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sounds | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sounds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | Mia's bot | weekend | different, suddenly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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: Most likely reason?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 reason | amod |
| 2 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reason | amod |
| 3 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 reason | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
It has caught a cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | aux |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cold | det |
| 5 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present · perfect · passive | It | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary cold=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The company updated it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 company | det |
| 2 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 updated | nsubj |
| 3 | updated | update | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 updated | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | update speech: other | past | the company | it | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
It is a different bot every Monday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bot | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bot | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bot | det |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bot | amod |
| 5 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 Monday | det |
| 7 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bot | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a different bot | tree rules |
Option 4
It went on holiday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 holiday | case |
| 4 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | It | holiday | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on holiday=Location |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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