Test 2 · ★★ · The essay the teacher spotted

What would happen if Sam kept using the bot for all his maths homework?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sam · What happens: happen, keep, use · To what, where: bot

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 9 «The essay the teacher spotted» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 kept	mark
5	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bot	det
9	bot	bot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 using	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	14 homework	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 homework	det:predet
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 homework	nmod:poss
13	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 homework	compound
14	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 using	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Sam			tree rules
3	use	gerund	Sam not said here	the bot	for Sam's maths homework	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent bot=Theme for homework=Eventuality

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.

The options

Option 1

The bot would sit his tests too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bot	det
2	bot	bot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tests	nmod:poss
6	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sit	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	4 sit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	would	the bot	bot's tests					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location test=Theme
2	test		bot						nom test «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He wouldn't practise, and tests would go badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 practise	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 practise	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 practise	advmod
4	practise	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 go	cc
7	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 go	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 practise	conj
10	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not practise	would	He						tree rules
2	go	would	tests					badly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

His teacher would give him extra marks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teacher	nmod:poss
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 marks	amod
7	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	His teacher	extra marks	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient mark=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He would get better at maths anyway, just by reading

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 maths	case
6	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 better	obl
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	3 get	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reading	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 reading	advmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 reading	case
11	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	He					anyway, good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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