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title: In a cartoon a chatbot snores in its box at night. What is wrong wit… — How a language model learns: guessing… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon a chatbot snores in its box at night. What is wrong with that? Test 5 of lesson 2 «How a language model learns: guessing the next word» 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 5 · How a language model learns: guessing the next word

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In a cartoon a chatbot snores in its box at night. What is wrong with that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** chatbot · **What happens:** snore, be

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This is test 5 of lesson 2 «How a language model learns: guessing the next word» 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/2-guessing-the-next-word/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon a chatbot snores in its box at night.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:2-guessing-the-next-word:t5:1
# text = In a cartoon a chatbot snores in its box at night.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	snores	snore	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snore** | present | a chatbot |  |  |  | night | in chatbot's box; in a cartoon | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Theme |

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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 is wrong with that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:2-guessing-the-next-word:t5:2
# text = What is wrong with that?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with that; wrong *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nothing, bots sleep eight hours a night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:2-guessing-the-next-word:t5:o1:1
# text = Nothing, bots sleep eight hours a night
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | present | bots |  |  |  | hour; night | Nothing *vocative* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Chatbots only snore in the morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:2-guessing-the-next-word:t5:o2:1
# text = Chatbots only snore in the morning
1	Chatbots	chatbot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	snore	snore	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snore** | present | Chatbots |  |  |  | morning |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bots dream but never snore

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:2-guessing-the-next-word:t5:o3:1
# text = Bots dream but never snore
1	Bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dream	dream	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	snore	snore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dream** | present | Bots |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **snore** | infinitive | Bots *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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A program that is not running does nothing at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:2-guessing-the-next-word:t5:o4:1
# text = A program that is not running does nothing at all
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	program	program	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **run** | present · progressive | a program |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | a program | nothing |  | all |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |

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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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