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title: Lily doesn't get fractions from the textbook. What is a good plan? — The essay the teacher spotted · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily doesn't get fractions from the textbook. What is a good plan? Test 5 · ★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★★ · The essay the teacher spotted

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Lily doesn't get fractions from the textbook. What is a good plan?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lily · **What happens:** not get, be · **To what, where:** fractions, textbook, good plan

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This is test 5 · ★★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lily doesn't get fractions from the textbook.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted:t5:1
# text = Lily doesn't get fractions from the textbook.
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	fractions	fraction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	textbook	textbook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | present · do-support | Lily | fractions |  | the textbook |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fraction=Theme from textbook=Source |

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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 is a good plan?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted:t5:2
# text = What is a good plan?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	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	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Skip fractions forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted:t5:o1:1
# text = Skip fractions forever
1	Skip	skip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fractions	fraction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Copy her friend's answers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted:t5:o2:1
# text = Copy her friend's answers
1	Copy	copy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | imperative | you *not said here* | her friend's answers |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** |  | her friend |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ask the bot to do the questions and then copy them out neatly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted:t5:o3:1
# text = Ask the bot to do the questions and then copy them out neatly
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	copy	copy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | the bot |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent bot=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the questions |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |
| 3 | **copy out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | questions *= question* |  |  | then | neatly *property* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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

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Ask the bot to explain differently, then try the questions herself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted:t5:o4:1
# text = Ask the bot to explain differently, then try the questions herself
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
6	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | the bot |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent bot=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the bot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | differently *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **try** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the questions |  |  | then | herself *= she* *obl* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=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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