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description: A school changed its rules about chatbots twice this year. What does this show? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 23 «In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words» 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 w
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# Test 8 · ★★ · In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words

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A school changed its rules about chatbots twice this year. What does this show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** school, this · **What happens:** change, rule, show · **To what, where:** rules

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 23 «In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words» 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/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A school changed its rules about chatbots twice this year.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries:t8:1
# text = A school changed its rules about chatbots twice this year.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	chatbots	chatbot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | a school | school's rules |  |  | year | about chatbots; twice *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient |
| 2 | **rule** |  | school |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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 does this show?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries:t8:2
# text = What does this show?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · do-support | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Schools never think about AI

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries:t8:o1:1
# text = Schools never think about AI
1	Schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | present | Schools |  |  |  |  | about AI | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about ai=Topic |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Pupils should choose their own rules

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries:t8:o2:1
# text = Pupils should choose their own rules
1	Pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | should | Pupils | Pupils's own rules |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 2 | **rule** |  | Pupils *= pupil* |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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

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Schools are still working out what is best

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries:t8:o3:1
# text = Schools are still working out what is best
1	Schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work out** | present · progressive | Schools |  |  |  | still |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Rules about AI will never change again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries:t8:o4:1
# text = Rules about AI will never change again
1	Rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **change** | future | Rules about AI |  |  |  | again |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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