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description: Ascertain the proper characterisation of an application purporting to permit conversation with a deceased celebrity. Exam question 4 of lesson 15 «Bots are not doctors, helplines are people» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Exam question 4 · Bots are not doctors, helplines are people

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Ascertain the proper characterisation of an application purporting to permit conversation with a deceased celebrity.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, application · **What happens:** ascertain, purport, permit, decease, characterise · **To what, where:** proper characterisation, conversation, application

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 15 «Bots are not doctors, helplines are people» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/15-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:15-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the proper characterisation of an application purporting to permit conversation with a deceased celebrity.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	characterisation	characterisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	application	application	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	purporting	purport	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	permit	permit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	deceased	decease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	celebrity	celebrity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the proper characterisation of a application |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent characterisation=Topic |
| 2 | **purport** | gerund | a application *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **permit** | to-infinitive | a application *not said here* | conversation |  |  |  | with a deceased celebrity | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversation=Theme |
| 4 | **decease** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **characterise** |  |  | a application |  |  |  |  | nom characterisation «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A recording of answers prepared by the person in life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:15-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people:e4:o1:1
# text = A recording of answers prepared by the person in life
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	recording	recording	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | participle |  | a recording of answers *not said here* |  |  |  | by the person in life | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A repository of the person's actual memories

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:15-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people:e4:o2:1
# text = A repository of the person's actual memories
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	repository	repository	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	actual	actual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A means of genuine communication with the deceased

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:15-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people:e4:o3:1
# text = A means of genuine communication with the deceased
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	genuine	genuine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	communication	communication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	deceased	decease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | A |  |  |  |  | of genuine communication | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **decease** | participle |  | genuine communication *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A program imitating the manner of that person, who is in no sense present

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:15-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people:e4:o4:1
# text = A program imitating the manner of that person, who is in no sense present
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	program	program	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	imitating	imitate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
14	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imitate** | gerund | a program *not said here* | the manner of that person |  |  |  |  | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | that person |  |  | no sense present |  |  | 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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