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title: Bots sometimes say upsetting things despite safety rules; close the… — Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages · tree and pragmatics
description: Bots sometimes say upsetting things despite safety rules; close the app and tell a grown-up. Who acts: Bots. A sentence of the lesson «Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages, sentence 11

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Bots sometimes say upsetting things despite safety rules; close the app and tell a grown-up.

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**Who acts:** Bots · **What happens:** say, close, tell · **To what, where:** upsetting things, app, grown · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages» 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 (Bots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:013-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages.lesson:11
# text = Bots sometimes say upsetting things despite safety rules; close the app and tell a grown-up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 013-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages.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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
4	upsetting	upsetting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	app	app	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
16	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Bots | upsetting things |  |  |  | despite safety rules; sometimes *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 2 | **close** | infinitive |  | the app |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent app=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | grown |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient up=Topic |

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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:013-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages.lesson:11`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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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