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description: Mia's bot suddenly sounds different after the weekend. Most likely reason? Test 7 · ★ 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; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop

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Mia's bot suddenly sounds different after the weekend. Most likely reason?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bot · **What happens:** sound

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 8 «Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop» 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/8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mia's bot suddenly sounds different after the weekend.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop:t7:1
# text = Mia's bot suddenly sounds different after the weekend.
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present | Mia's bot |  |  |  | weekend | different, suddenly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:* Most likely reason?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop:t7:2
# text = Most likely reason?
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It has caught a cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop:t7:o1:1
# text = It has caught a cold
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | present · perfect · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary cold=Theme |

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

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The company updated it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop:t7:o2:1
# text = The company updated it
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	updated	update	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **update** *speech: other* | past | the company | it |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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It is a different bot every Monday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop:t7:o3:1
# text = It is a different bot every Monday
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a different bot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It went on holiday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop:t7:o4:1
# text = It went on holiday
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | It |  |  | holiday |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on holiday=Location |

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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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