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title: Maddie's made-up language falls apart after an hour of chat. Why? — Pretend games, quotes and two bots tha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Maddie's made-up language falls apart after an hour of chat. Why? Test 6 of lesson 7 «Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree» 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 · Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree

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Maddie's made-up language falls apart after an hour of chat. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** make up

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This is test 6 of lesson 7 «Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree» 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/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Maddie's made-up language falls apart after an hour of chat.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots:t6:1
# text = Maddie's made-up language falls apart after an hour of chat.
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	falls	fall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots:t6:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The bot doesn't like made-up languages and gives up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots:t6:o1:1
# text = The bot doesn't like made-up languages and gives up
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | the bot | made languages |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot language=Theme |
| 2 | **make up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **give up** | present | the bot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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Long chats go past what the bot can keep in mind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots:t6:o2:1
# text = Long chats go past what the bot can keep in mind
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	past	past	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Long chats |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme past what=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **keep** | can | the bot |  |  | mind |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in mind=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Made-up languages always fall apart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots:t6:o3:1
# text = Made-up languages always fall apart
1	Made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall apart** | present | Made languages |  |  |  |  | always, apart *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Someone changed her words in secret

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots:t6:o4:1
# text = Someone changed her words in secret
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | Someone | her *= she* |  | secret |  |  | 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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