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title: The bot says the next match is on 3 March, which already passed. Wha… — Why the bot agrees too easily · tree and pragmatics
description: The bot says the next match is on 3 March, which already passed. What has happened? Test 7 · ★★ 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 7 · ★★ · Why the bot agrees too easily

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The bot says the next match is on 3 March, which already passed. What has happened?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bot, next match, 3 March · **What happens:** say, be, pass, happen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* The bot says the next match is on 3 March, which already passed.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily:t7:1
# text = The bot says the next match is on 3 March, which already passed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	already	already	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the bot |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the next match |  |  |  |  | on 3 March | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | past | 3 March |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:* What has happened?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily:t7:2
# text = What has happened?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	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 | **happen** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The match is played every 3 March

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily:t7:o1:1
# text = The match is played every 3 March
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present · passive |  | the match |  |  | march |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The club moved the match into the past

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily:t7:o2:1
# text = The club moved the match into the past
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | the club | the match |  | the past |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent match=Theme into past=Trajectory |

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

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Its information is out of date

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily:t7:o3:1
# text = Its information is out of date
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Its information |  |  | date |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **inform** |  | Its *= it* |  |  |  |  |  | nom information «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Time works differently for bots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily:t7:o4:1
# text = Time works differently for bots
1	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | Time |  |  |  |  | for bots; differently *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for bot=Beneficiary |

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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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