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title: A cartoon kid gets a gold medal for a bot poem and grins forever. Wh… — The essay the teacher spotted · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon kid gets a gold medal for a bot poem and grins forever. What does the cartoon miss? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 9 «The essay the teacher spotted» 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 right.
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# Test 4 · ★★ · The essay the teacher spotted

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A cartoon kid gets a gold medal for a bot poem and grins forever. What does the cartoon miss?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cartoon kid · **What happens:** get, grin, do · **To what, where:** gold medal

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 9 «The essay the teacher spotted» 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/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon kid gets a gold medal for a bot poem and grins forever.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted:t4:1
# text = A cartoon kid gets a gold medal for a bot poem and grins forever.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	medal	medal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	grins	grin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | a cartoon kid | a gold medal |  |  |  | for a bot poem | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent medal=Theme for poem=Source |
| 2 | **grin** | present | a cartoon kid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 does the cartoon miss?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted:t4:2
# text = What does the cartoon miss?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	miss	miss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A prize you didn't earn feels empty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted:t4:o1:1
# text = A prize you didn't earn feels empty
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **earn** | past · do-support | you | a prize *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | present | a prize |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Teachers never notice where poems come from

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted:t4:o2:1
# text = Teachers never notice where poems come from
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	notice	notice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
5	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **notice** | present | Teachers |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | present | poems |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Medals are only for bots, not for people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted:t4:o3:1
# text = Medals are only for bots, not for people
1	Medals	medal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Medals |  |  |  |  | for bots and people | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bot poems always win medals in the end

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted:t4:o4:1
# text = Bot poems always win medals in the end
1	Bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	medals	medal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present | Bot poems | medals |  |  | in the end | always *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medal=Eventuality |

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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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