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description: Ascertain the question most likely to elicit a well-founded answer from a chatbot whose correctness is in doubt. Exam question 4 of lesson 5 «Hallucinations: confident made-up answers» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Exam question 4 · Hallucinations: confident made-up answers

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Ascertain the question most likely to elicit a well-founded answer from a chatbot whose correctness is in doubt.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, correctness · **What happens:** ascertain, elicit, found, be · **To what, where:** question, founded answer, chatbot, doubt

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 5 «Hallucinations: confident made-up answers» 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/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the question most likely to elicit a well-founded answer from a chatbot whose correctness is in doubt.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	elicit	elicit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	correctness	correctness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the question |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Topic |
| 2 | **elicit** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a founded answer |  | a chatbot |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition answer=Patient |
| 3 | **found** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | doubt's correctness |  |  | doubt |  |  | tree rules |

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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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A demand that it declare itself certain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers:e4:o1:1
# text = A demand that it declare itself certain
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
6	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | infinitive | demand | demand |  |  |  | certain *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Attribute |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A request for the reasons underlying its answer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers:e4:o2:1
# text = A request for the reasons underlying its answer
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	underlying	underlie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **underlie** | gerund | the reasons *not said here* | request's answer |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme answer=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **answer** |  | request |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A repetition of the original question in a louder manner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers:e4:o3:1
# text = A repetition of the original question in a louder manner
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	repetition	repetition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** |  | the original question in a louder manner |  |  |  |  |  | nom repetition «event intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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An instruction that it promise to be correct

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers:e4:o4:1
# text = An instruction that it promise to be correct
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	promise	promise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | instruction | a instruction *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | instruction *not said here* |  |  |  |  | correct *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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