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title: Ascertain the party upon whom the duty of terminating a conversation… — Asking well, being polite, knowing whe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the party upon whom the duty of terminating a conversation with a chatbot principally falls. Exam question 4 of lesson 8 «Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Exam question 4 · Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop

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Ascertain the party upon whom the duty of terminating a conversation with a chatbot principally falls.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, duty · **What happens:** ascertain, terminate, fall · **To what, where:** party, conversation

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 8 «Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop» 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/8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the party upon whom the duty of terminating a conversation with a chatbot principally falls.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	terminating	terminate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	principally	principally	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 party |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Topic |
| 2 | **terminate** | gerund | the duty *not said here* | a conversation |  |  |  | with a chatbot | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversation=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | present | the duty |  |  |  |  | principally *property* | vn occur-48.3 «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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The company, at the close of each business day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop:e4:o1:1
# text = The company, at the close of each business day
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	close	close	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The chatbot, upon the exhaustion of its energy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop:e4:o2:1
# text = The chatbot, upon the exhaustion of its energy
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	exhaustion	exhaustion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exhaust** |  |  | exhaustion's energy |  |  |  |  | nom exhaustion «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No party, conversations ending of their own accord

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop:e4:o3:1
# text = No party, conversations ending of their own accord
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	conversations	conversation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	accord	accord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** |  |  | their own accord |  |  |  |  | nom ending «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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

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The user, the chatbot never becoming fatigued

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop:e4:o4:1
# text = The user, the chatbot never becoming fatigued
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	user	user	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	fatigued	fatigue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **become** | gerund | the chatbot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fatigue** | participle |  | the user and the chatbot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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