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title: A chatbot's friendly greeting is the kind of reply its training make… — What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people · tree and pragmatics
description: A chatbot's friendly greeting is the kind of reply its training makes likely; it does not mean someone is alive inside it. Who acts: friendly greeting, training, it, someone. A sentence of the lesson «What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people, sentence 7

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A chatbot's friendly greeting is the kind of reply its training makes likely; it does not mean someone is alive inside it.

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**Who acts:** friendly greeting, training, it, someone, chatbot, greeting · **What happens:** be, make, not mean, greet, train · **To what, where:** kind, reply, greeting · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people» of the ai course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friendly greeting, training, it, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:001-what-is-ai.lesson:7
# text = A chatbot's friendly greeting is the kind of reply its training makes likely; it does not mean someone is alive inside it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 001-what-is-ai.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
20	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	ccomp	_	_
23	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a chatbot's friendly greeting | the kind |  |  |  | of reply | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | greeting's training | reply *not said here* |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reply=Product |
| 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | someone |  |  | greeting |  | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **greet** |  | a chatbot |  |  |  |  |  | nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **train** |  | greeting |  |  |  |  |  | nom training «act 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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:ai:001-what-is-ai.lesson:7`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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