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title: Scary predictions online are usually nonsense meant to get attention. — Bots are not doctors, helplines are people · tree and pragmatics
description: Scary predictions online are usually nonsense meant to get attention. Who acts: Scary predictions. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Bots are not doctors, helplines are people, sentence 14

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Scary predictions online are usually nonsense meant to get attention.

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**Who acts:** Scary predictions · **What happens:** be, mean, get · **To what, where:** nonsense, attention

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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 (Scary predictions), 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:14
# text = Scary predictions online are usually nonsense meant to get attention.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	predictions	prediction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	online	online	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl
10	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Scary predictions | nonsense |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | participle |  | nonsense *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | attention |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=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:015-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people.lesson:14`.

**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 ×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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