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description: Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the relationship between the plausibility and the correctness of a chatbot's answer? Exam question 1 of lesson 3 «Sounding right and being right» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Exam question 1 · Sounding right and being right

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the relationship between the plausibility and the correctness of a chatbot's answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** chatbot · **What happens:** follow, characteris, answer · **To what, where:** relationship

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 3 «Sounding right and being right» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:3-sounding-right-and-being-right:e1:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the relationship between the plausibility and the correctness of a chatbot's answer?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	plausibility	plausibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	correctness	correctness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present |  | the relationship and the correctness of a chatbot's answer |  |  |  | of the following statements; between the plausibility; accurately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **answer** |  | a chatbot |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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An implausible answer is invariably correct

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:3-sounding-right-and-being-right:e1:o1:1
# text = An implausible answer is invariably correct
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	implausible	implausible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	invariably	invariably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	correct	correct	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** | present | a implausible answer |  |  |  |  | correct, invariably *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Plausibility and correctness are one and the same property

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:3-sounding-right-and-being-right:e1:o2:1
# text = Plausibility and correctness are one and the same property
1	Plausibility	plausibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	correctness	correctness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Plausibility and correctness | one and the same property |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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An answer may appear entirely plausible and nonetheless be incorrect

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:3-sounding-right-and-being-right:e1:o3:1
# text = An answer may appear entirely plausible and nonetheless be incorrect
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	plausible	plausible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	nonetheless	nonetheless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	incorrect	incorrect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | may | a answer |  |  |  |  | entirely, plausible *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | a answer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | incorrect *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A plausible answer is invariably correct

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:3-sounding-right-and-being-right:e1:o4:1
# text = A plausible answer is invariably correct
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	plausible	plausible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	invariably	invariably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	correct	correct	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** | present | a plausible answer |  |  |  |  | correct, invariably *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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