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title: Chloe wants the bot to translate a long letter to Granny's doctor. W… — Why the bot agrees too easily · tree and pragmatics
description: Chloe wants the bot to translate a long letter to Granny's doctor. What is sensible? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 6 «Why the bot agrees too easily» 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 wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Why the bot agrees too easily

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Chloe wants the bot to translate a long letter to Granny's doctor. What is sensible?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Chloe · **What happens:** want, translate, be · **To what, where:** bot, long letter

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 6 «Why the bot agrees too easily» 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/6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Chloe wants the bot to translate a long letter to Granny's doctor.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily:t6:1
# text = Chloe wants the bot to translate a long letter to Granny's doctor.
1	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	translate	translate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Granny	Granny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Chloe | the bot |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bot=Theme |
| 2 | **translate** | to-infinitive | Chloe *not said here* | a long letter |  |  |  | to Granny's doctor | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient |

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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 is sensible?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily:t6:2
# text = What is sensible?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Send it in English and hope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily:t6:o1:1
# text = Send it in English and hope
1	Send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  | English and hope |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in english=Destination |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Send it straight away, bots never slip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily:t6:o2:1
# text = Send it straight away, bots never slip
1	Send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | away *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **slip** | present | bots |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Translate it word by word with a dictionary only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily:t6:o3:1
# text = Translate it word by word with a dictionary only
1	Translate	translate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | by word with a dictionary; word *obl* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Ask someone who speaks Polish to check it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily:t6:o4:1
# text = Ask someone who speaks Polish to check it
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	Polish	Polish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | someone |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present |  | Polish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **check** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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