Test 9 · ★★ · The internet and undersea cables

«is that speaker thing always spying on us, creepy» What is closest to the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: speaker thing, creepy · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 37 «The internet and undersea cables» of the technology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 spying	punct
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spying	cop
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 thing	det
4	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spying	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 spying	advmod
7	spying	spy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 us	case
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 spying	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 creepy	punct
11	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 closest	nsubj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 creepy	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 closest	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 closest	cop
15	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 spying	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 truth	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 truth	det
18	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 closest	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 spying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that speaker thing					on us; always, spy property	tree rules
2	is	present	creepy					to the truth; close property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

It records every word all day

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 records	nsubj
2	records	record	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 records	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 records	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	record	present	It	every word			day		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme

Option 2

It only listens to the dog

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 listens	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 listens	advmod
3	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 dog	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 listens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	present	It					to the dog	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to dog=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It listens fully only after its wake word, but it may store recordings

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 listens	nsubj
2	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fully	fully	ADV	_	2 listens	advmod
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 word	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 word	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 word	nmod:poss
7	wake	wake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	compound
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 listens	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 store	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 store	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 store	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 store	aux
13	store	store	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 listens	advcl
14	recordings	recording	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 store	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	listen	present	It		after its wake word	fully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	store	may	word	recordings			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recording=Theme
3	word		its = it				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

It cannot hear anything at all

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	4 hear	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 hear	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	can	It	anything		all			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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