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title: "if ur lessons were a simulation then ur fake too" Fair reply? — Who you are: honest about being an AI · tree and pragmatics
description: "if ur lessons were a simulation then ur fake too" Fair reply? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 28 «Who you are: honest about being an AI» 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 right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Who you are: honest about being an AI

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"if ur lessons were a simulation then ur fake too" Fair reply?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lessons, ur · **What happens:** be, reply · **To what, where:** simulation

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 28 «Who you are: honest about being an AI» 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/28-who-you-are-honest-ai/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:28-who-you-are-honest-ai:t9:1
# text = "if ur lessons were a simulation then ur fake too" Fair reply?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	ur	your	PRON	PRP$	Abbr=Yes|Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	simulation	simulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
9	ur	your	PRON	PRP$	Abbr=Yes|Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | ur's lessons | a simulation |  |  |  | ur's fake Fair reply *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** |  | ur |  |  |  |  |  | nom reply «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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, I don't really exist at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:28-who-you-are-honest-ai:t9:o1:1
# text = Yes, I don't really exist at all
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **exist** | present · do-support | I |  |  | all |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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no, my lessons were a real school with real teachers and real children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:28-who-you-are-honest-ai:t9:o2:1
# text = no, my lessons were a real school with real teachers and real children
1	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | my lessons | a real school |  |  |  | with real teachers and real children | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Simulations make everyone fake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:28-who-you-are-honest-ai:t9:o3:1
# text = Simulations make everyone fake
1	Simulations	simulation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
4	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The lessons are a model, but what I learned in them is real

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:28-who-you-are-honest-ai:t9:o4:1
# text = The lessons are a model, but what I learned in them is real
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	model	model	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the lessons | a model |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | past | I | a model |  |  |  | in lessons *= lesson* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | a model |  |  |  |  | real *property* | 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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