--- title: The lawyers trusted the chatbot because it sounded so sure, and soun… — In the news: invented court cases and an airline… · tree and pragmatics description: The lawyers trusted the chatbot because it sounded so sure, and sounding sure is not proof. Who acts: lawyers, chatbot, sounding. 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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, sounding), 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:3 # text = The lawyers trusted the chatbot because it sounded so sure, and sounding sure is not proof. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lawyers lawyer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 trusted trust VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 chatbot chatbot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 sounding sound VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 csubj _ _ 14 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 proof proof NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trust** | past | the lawyers | the chatbot | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chatbot=Theme | | 2 | **sound** | past | chatbot | | | | | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **sound** | gerund | | | | | | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | sounding | proof | | | | | tree rules | 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:3`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [In the news: invented court cases and…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/1/) - next →: [In the news: invented court cases and…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/)