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title: Maddie wants her reading-log done quickly. What's the honest shortcut? — School rules, honesty and wrong accusa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Maddie wants her reading-log done quickly. What's the honest shortcut? Test 4 of lesson 11 «School rules, honesty and wrong accusations» 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 wrong.
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# Test 4 · School rules, honesty and wrong accusations

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Maddie wants her reading-log done quickly. What's the honest shortcut?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Maddie, honest shortcut · **What happens:** want, do, be · **To what, where:** reading log

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This is test 4 of lesson 11 «School rules, honesty and wrong accusations» 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/11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Maddie wants her reading-log done quickly.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations:t4:1
# text = Maddie wants her reading-log done quickly.
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Maddie | Maddie's reading log |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot log=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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's the honest shortcut?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations:t4:2
# text = What's the honest shortcut?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shortcut	shortcut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the honest shortcut |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Copy out last week's comment again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations:t4:o1:1
# text = Copy out last week's comment again
1	Copy	copy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	comment	comment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy out** | imperative | you *not said here* | last week's comment |  |  | again | out *property* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comment=Theme |
| 2 | **comment** |  | last week |  |  |  |  |  | nom comment «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Write one true sentence herself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations:t4:o2:1
# text = Write one true sentence herself
1	Write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | imperative | you *not said here* | one true sentence |  |  |  | herself *= she* *obl* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Copy a bot's comment and change the name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations:t4:o3:1
# text = Copy a bot's comment and change the name
1	Copy	copy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	comment	comment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | imperative | you *not said here* | a bot's comment |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comment=Theme |
| 2 | **change** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the name |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 3 | **comment** |  | a bot |  |  |  |  |  | nom comment «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ask her big sister to write it for her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations:t4:o4:1
# text = Ask her big sister to write it for her
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | big sister | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 2 | **write** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | for her *= she* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Result for she=Beneficiary |

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