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title: When should Mia still check a bot's fact, even a famous one? — Why the bot agrees too easily · tree and pragmatics
description: When should Mia still check a bot's fact, even a famous one? Test 9 · ★★ 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 9 · ★★ · Why the bot agrees too easily

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When should Mia still check a bot's fact, even a famous one?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mia · **What happens:** check · **To what, where:** fact

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily:t9:1
# text = When should Mia still check a bot's fact, even a famous one?
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | should | Mia | a bot's fact |  |  | still |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Never, famous facts are always right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily:t9:o1:1
# text = Never, famous facts are always right
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | famous facts |  |  |  |  | always, right *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only on Fridays

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily:t9:o2:1
# text = Only on Fridays
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Fridays	Friday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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When it matters, like for homework

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily:t9:o3:1
# text = When it matters, like for homework
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **matter** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only when the bot says "I'm sure"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily:t9:o4:1
# text = Only when the bot says "I'm sure"
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	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** *in a quote* | present | the bot *= bot* |  |  |  |  | sure *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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