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# In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot, sentence 10

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It was reported that a tribunal (a kind of court that settles disagreements) decided the airline had to honour what its chatbot had said and did not accept that the bot alone was to blame.

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**Who acts:** kind, tribunal, airline, chatbot, bot · **What happens:** report, settle, decide, have, honour, say · **To what, where:** confidence, disagreements · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot» 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 (kind, tribunal, airline, 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:10
# text = It was reported that a tribunal (a kind of court that settles disagreements) decided the airline had to honour what its chatbot had said and did not accept that the bot alone was to blame.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
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	_	16	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tribunal	tribunal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	settles	settle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	disagreements	disagreement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
16	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	airline	airline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	honour	honour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	ccomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
34	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	blame	blame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:ccomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **report** | past · passive |  | confidence |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **settle** | present | a kind of court | disagreements |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme disagreement=Location |
| 3 | **decide** | past | a tribunal |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | past | the airline |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **honour** | to-infinitive | the airline *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | confidence's chatbot |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **accept** | past · do-support | a tribunal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | past | the bot |  |  |  |  | blame *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:020-news-court-cases-airline.lesson:10`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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