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title: Chloe's teacher holds up a ginger fluffy cushion and the app says "c… — What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people · tree and pragmatics
description: Chloe's teacher holds up a ginger fluffy cushion and the app says "cat". What should the class learn? Test 5 of lesson 1 «What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 5 · What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people

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Chloe's teacher holds up a ginger fluffy cushion and the app says "cat". What should the class learn?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** teacher, app, class · **What happens:** hold up, say, learn · **To what, where:** ginger fluffy cushion, cat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 of lesson 1 «What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/1-what-is-ai/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Chloe's teacher holds up a ginger fluffy cushion and the app says "cat".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:1-what-is-ai:t5:1
# text = Chloe's teacher holds up a ginger fluffy cushion and the app says "cat".
1	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	ginger	ginger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cushion	cushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	app	app	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold up** | present | Chloe's teacher | a ginger fluffy cushion |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cushion=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the app | cat |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should the class learn?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:1-what-is-ai:t5:2
# text = What should the class learn?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | should | the class |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The cushion must contain cat hair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:1-what-is-ai:t5:o1:1
# text = The cushion must contain cat hair
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cushion	cushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	contain	contain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | must | the cushion | cat hair |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hair=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The app is cleverer than the class

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:1-what-is-ai:t5:o2:1
# text = The app is cleverer than the class
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	app	app	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	cleverer	clever	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the app |  |  |  |  | than the class; clever *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The app learned a look, not what a cat really is

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:1-what-is-ai:t5:o3:1
# text = The app learned a look, not what a cat really is
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	app	app	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	ccomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | the app | a look |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | a cat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cushions and cats are the same to everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:1-what-is-ai:t5:o4:1
# text = Cushions and cats are the same to everyone
1	Cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Cushions and cats |  |  |  |  | to everyone; same *property* | tree rules |

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**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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