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description: A book with a famous author's name looks odd and full of mistakes. What might be going on? Test 9 · ★★ 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
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# Test 9 · ★★ · In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words

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A book with a famous author's name looks odd and full of mistakes. What might be going on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** book, famous author · **What happens:** look, name, go on

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A book with a famous author's name looks odd and full of mistakes.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries:t9:1
# text = A book with a famous author's name looks odd and full of mistakes.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | a book with a famous author's name |  |  |  |  | odd *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **name** |  | a famous author |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: 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 might be going on?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries:t9:2
# text = What might be going on?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | might · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It must be her first ever book

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries:t9:o1:1
# text = It must be her first ever book
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | must | It | her first book |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It could be a fake made under her name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries:t9:o2:1
# text = It could be a fake made under her name
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fake	fake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | could | It | a fake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a fake *not said here* |  | her name |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **name** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Famous authors always make mistakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries:t9:o3:1
# text = Famous authors always make mistakes
1	Famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	authors	author	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Famous authors | mistakes |  |  |  | always *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The printer changed her words

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries:t9:o4:1
# text = The printer changed her words
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	printer	printer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | the printer | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | 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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