Test 8 · ★★ · The essay the teacher spotted
Maddie's bot fixes her spelling. What turns that into learning?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bot · What happens: fix, spell, turn · To what, where: spelling, that, learning
This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Maddie's bot fixes her spelling.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bot | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Maddie | case |
| 3 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fixes | nsubj |
| 4 | fixes | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 spelling | nmod:poss |
| 6 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fixes | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fixes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | present | Maddie's bot | bot's spelling | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent spelling=Patient | ||||
| 2 | spell | bot | nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 turns that into learning?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 turns | nsubj |
| 2 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 turns | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 learning | case |
| 5 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turns | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 turns | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | that | learning | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent that=Theme into learning=Trajectory |
The options
Option 1
Clicking "accept all" quickly and moving on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clicking | click | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 accept | punct |
| 3 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Clicking | xcomp |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 accept | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 accept | punct |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Clicking | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 moving | cc |
| 8 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Clicking | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 moving | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | click | gerund | quickly property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | accept in a quote | infinitive | all | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | |||||
| 3 | move on | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Asking the bot to fix it all twice over
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bot | det |
| 3 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Asking | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fix | mark |
| 5 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Asking | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fix | obj |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 twice | advmod |
| 8 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 fix | advmod |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 fix | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the bot | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent bot=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fix not said to happen | to-infinitive | the bot not said here | bot | over, twice property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 3
Never looking at the changes it made
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 looking | advmod |
| 2 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 made | advcl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 changes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 changes | det |
| 5 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looking | obl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | gerund | at the changes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at change=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | past | it | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Looking at what was fixed and why
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 why | csubj |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 5 fixed | mark |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fixed | aux:pass |
| 5 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Looking | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 why | cc |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | fix | past · passive | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
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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