--- title: It was reported that lawyers in America gave a court a list of past… — In the news: invented court cases and an airline… · tree and pragmatics description: It was reported that lawyers in America gave a court a list of past cases to back up their argument, and the cases had been invented by a chatbot. Who acts: lawyers, chatbot. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lawyers, chatbot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ai:020-news-court-cases-airline.lesson:1 # text = It was reported that lawyers in America gave a court a list of past cases to back up their argument, and the cases had been invented by a chatbot. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ai # lesson = 020-news-court-cases-airline.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 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 lawyers lawyer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 iobj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 past past ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 back back VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 argument argument NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 invented invent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 chatbot chatbot NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:agent _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | past · passive | | news | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **give** | past | lawyers in America | a list of past cases | a court | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent court=Recipient list=Theme | | 3 | **back up** | to-infinitive | lawyers in America *not said here* | lawyers's argument | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Agent | | 4 | **invent** | past · perfect · passive | a chatbot | the cases | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result | | 5 | **list** | | | past cases | | | | | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **argue** | | lawyers *= lawyer* | | | | | | nom argument «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:020-news-court-cases-airline.lesson:1`. **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/). - ← previous: [In the news: invented court cases and…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/0/) - next →: [In the news: invented court cases and…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/)