Test 5 · ★★ · The essay the teacher spotted
Lily doesn't get fractions from the textbook. What is a good plan?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lily · What happens: not get, be · To what, where: fractions, textbook, good plan
This is test 5 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: Lily doesn't get fractions from the textbook.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 get | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | fractions | fraction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 textbook | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 textbook | det |
| 8 | textbook | textbook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | present · do-support | Lily | fractions | the textbook | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fraction=Theme from textbook=Source |
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 is a good plan?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 plan | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 plan | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plan | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 plan | amod |
| 5 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 plan | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a good plan | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Skip fractions forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skip | skip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fractions | compound |
| 2 | fractions | fraction | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 2 fractions | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Copy her friend's answers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Copy | copy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 friend | case |
| 5 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Copy | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | imperative | you not said here | her friend's answers | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer | her friend | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
Ask the bot to do the questions and then copy them out neatly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bot | det |
| 3 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ask | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 questions | det |
| 7 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 copy | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 copy | advmod |
| 10 | copy | copy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ask | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 copy | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 copy | compound:prt |
| 13 | neatly | neatly | ADV | _ | 10 copy | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the bot | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent bot=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the questions | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | copy out | infinitive | you not said here | questions = question | then | neatly property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Ask the bot to explain differently, then try the questions herself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bot | det |
| 3 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 explain | mark |
| 5 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ask | xcomp |
| 6 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 5 explain | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 try | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 try | advmod |
| 9 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ask | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 questions | det |
| 11 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 try | obj |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 try | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the bot | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent bot=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | the bot not said here | differently property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | try | infinitive | you not said here | the questions | then | herself = she obl | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |
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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