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title: "y'all, the bot gave me a Lincoln quote about the internet lol". Lin… — Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky mes… · tree and pragmatics
description: "y'all, the bot gave me a Lincoln quote about the internet lol". Lincoln died in 1865. What's the truth? Test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★

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"y'all, the bot gave me a Lincoln quote about the internet lol". Lincoln died in 1865. What's the truth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** y'all, Lincoln, truth · **What happens:** give, die, be · **To what, where:** Lincoln quote, me

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This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★» 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/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "y'all, the bot gave me a Lincoln quote about the internet lol".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:t1:1
# text = "y'all, the bot gave me a Lincoln quote about the internet lol".
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	y'all	y'all	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Lincoln	Lincoln	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	quote	quote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	internet	internet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	lol	lol	NOUN	NN	_	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | past | y'all | a Lincoln quote | me |  |  | about the internet lol | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient quote=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:* Lincoln died in 1865.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:t1:2
# text = Lincoln died in 1865.
1	Lincoln	Lincoln	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1865	1865	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | Lincoln |  |  |  |  | in 1865 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1865=Attribute |

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*Sentence 3:* What's the truth?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:t1:3
# text = What's the truth?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the truth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It's real, because the bot used quotation marks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:t1:o1:1
# text = It's real, because the bot used quotation marks
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	quotation	quotation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | past | the bot | quotation marks |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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It's real, but he said it about a different website

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:t1:o2:1
# text = It's real, but he said it about a different website
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	website	website	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | he | it |  |  |  | about a different website | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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

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It's made up: the internet didn't exist in his time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:t1:o3:1
# text = It's made up: the internet didn't exist in his time
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	internet	internet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
| 2 | **not** **exist** | past · do-support | the internet |  |  |  | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It's real, he was very good at guessing the future

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:t1:o4:1
# text = It's real, he was very good at guessing the future
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
9	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	guessing	guess	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **guess** | gerund | he *not said here* | the future |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent future=Theme |

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