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title: Bots can be used to send mean messages again and again; the answer i… — Stop, think, check, ask · tree and pragmatics
description: Bots can be used to send mean messages again and again; the answer is block, report, screenshot and tell a grown-up. Who acts: answer. A sentence of the lesson «Stop, think, check, ask» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stop, think, check, ask, sentence 12

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Bots can be used to send mean messages again and again; the answer is block, report, screenshot and tell a grown-up.

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**Who acts:** answer · **What happens:** use, send, be, tell · **To what, where:** Bots, mean messages, block, grown · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Stop, think, check, ask» 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 (answer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:014-stop-think-check-ask.lesson:12
# text = Bots can be used to send mean messages again and again; the answer is block, report, screenshot and tell a grown-up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 014-stop-think-check-ask.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
1	Bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	screenshot	screenshot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det
24	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
26	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:compound|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **use** | can · passive |  | Bots |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **send** | to-infinitive |  | mean messages |  |  | again |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the answer | block and report and screenshot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the answer *not said here* | 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:014-stop-think-check-ask.lesson:12`.

**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. **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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