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title: Maddie's bot fixes her spelling. What turns that into learning? — The essay the teacher spotted · tree and pragmatics
description: Maddie's bot fixes her spelling. What turns that into learning? Test 8 · ★★ 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 8 · ★★ · The essay the teacher spotted

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Maddie's bot fixes her spelling. What turns that into learning?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bot · **What happens:** fix, spell, turn · **To what, where:** spelling, that, learning

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This is test 8 · ★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Maddie's bot fixes her spelling.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted:t8:1
# text = Maddie's bot fixes her spelling.
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fixes	fix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | present | Maddie's bot | bot's spelling |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent spelling=Patient |
| 2 | **spell** |  | bot |  |  |  |  |  | nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=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 turns that into learning?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted:t8:2
# text = What turns that into learning?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present |  | that |  | learning |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent that=Theme into learning=Trajectory |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Clicking "accept all" quickly and moving on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted:t8:o1:1
# text = Clicking "accept all" quickly and moving on
1	Clicking	click	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **click** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **accept** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |
| 3 | **move on** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Asking the bot to fix it all twice over

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted:t8:o2:1
# text = Asking the bot to fix it all twice over
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	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	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  | the bot |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent bot=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fix** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the bot *not said here* | bot |  |  |  | over, twice *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Never looking at the changes it made

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted:t8:o3:1
# text = Never looking at the changes it made
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at the changes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at change=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material |

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

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Looking at what was fixed and why

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted:t8:o4:1
# text = Looking at what was fixed and why
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	_
2	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fix** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |

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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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