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title: How a language model learns: guessing the next word — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · AI
description: The 14 test and exam questions of lesson 2 «How a language model learns: guessing the next word» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# How a language model learns: guessing the next word

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The 14 questions of lesson 2 «How a language model learns: guessing the next word» of the AI course of Mova's primary school with their options, 77 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/t1/) — "my bot says it's 2023 lol, is it broken" What is likely going on? — right ✓
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/t2/) — What would happen if you left a chatbot app closed for a whole week? — right ✓
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/t3/) — "bots are just parrots, they copy and paste, end of" Is that fair? — right ✓
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/t4/) — Grandma says thank you to the speaker. Her grandson laughs. What is the kind truth? — wrong ✗
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/t5/) — In a cartoon a chatbot snores in its box at night. What is wrong with that? — wrong ✗
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/t6/) — Ask ten bots for a number from 1 to 10. Which is most likely? — right ✓
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/t7/) — A bot gives an unkind answer about a group of people. What is the best way to think about it? — wrong ✗
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/t8/) — Your friend says the bot is "a she, called Alexa or whatever". What is closer to the truth? — right ✓
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/t9/) — Why do words appear one after another when a bot answers? — wrong ✗
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/t10/) — Which of these did a language model NOT need to learn? — wrong ✗
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the term "large language model"? — right ✓ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/e2/) — Identify the principal reason for which a conversational program may state the time incorrectly. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/e3/) — Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning a conversational program which has been switched off. — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/e4/) — It is given that numerous distinct programs, when requested to select a number between one and ten, select seven. Ascertain the most probable explanation. — right ✓ · exam

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