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title: A chatbot can sound like a doctor, a dietician, a counsellor or even… — Bots are not doctors, helplines are people · tree and pragmatics
description: A chatbot can sound like a doctor, a dietician, a counsellor or even a famous person who has died, but it is none of them. Who acts: chatbot, famous person. A sentence of the lesson «Bots are not doctors, helplines are people» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Bots are not doctors, helplines are people, sentence 0

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A chatbot can sound like a doctor, a dietician, a counsellor or even a famous person who has died, but it is none of them.

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**Who acts:** chatbot, famous person · **What happens:** sound, die, be · **To what, where:** none

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bots are not doctors, helplines are 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, famous person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:015-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people.lesson:0
# text = A chatbot can sound like a doctor, a dietician, a counsellor or even a famous person who has died, but it is none of them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 015-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dietician	dietician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	4	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | can | a chatbot |  |  |  |  | like a doctor and a dietician | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **die** | present · perfect | a famous person |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | present | chatbot | none |  |  |  | of counsellor | tree rules |

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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:015-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people.lesson:0`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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