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title: When Mia told a bot about a problem at home, the best thing it did w… — Bots are not doctors, helplines are people · tree and pragmatics
description: When Mia told a bot about a problem at home, the best thing it did was suggest a helpline. Who acts: Mia, thing, best thing. 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 2

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When Mia told a bot about a problem at home, the best thing it did was suggest a helpline.

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**Who acts:** Mia, thing, best thing · **What happens:** tell, do, be · **To what, where:** bot, best thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Mia, thing, best thing), 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:2
# text = When Mia told a bot about a problem at home, the best thing it did was suggest a helpline.
# 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): no change
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	suggest	suggest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	helpline	helpline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Mia |  | a bot |  |  | about a problem at home | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent bot=Recipient about problem=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | past | thing | the best thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | the best thing |  |  |  |  | suggest *property* | 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:2`.

**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): no change. **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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