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title: A chatbot has no body, so it cannot taste chocolate, smell flowers o… — What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people · tree and pragmatics
description: A chatbot has no body, so it cannot taste chocolate, smell flowers or feel tired. Who acts: chatbot, body. A sentence of the lesson «What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people, sentence 9

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A chatbot has no body, so it cannot taste chocolate, smell flowers or feel tired.

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**Who acts:** chatbot, body · **What happens:** have, not taste, smell, feel · **To what, where:** body, chocolate, flowers

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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 (chatbot, body), 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:9
# text = A chatbot has no body, so it cannot taste chocolate, smell flowers or feel tired.
# 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	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
12	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
15	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | a chatbot | no body |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **taste** | can | body | chocolate |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme chocolate=Attribute |
| 3 | **smell** | infinitive | body *not said here* | flowers |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus |
| 4 | **feel** | infinitive | body *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tired *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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**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:9`.

**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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