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description: It was reported that an airline's website chatbot told a man he could claim a refund later, which was not the airline's real rule. Who acts: website chatbot, man, refund. 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 w
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# In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot, sentence 9

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It was reported that an airline's website chatbot told a man he could claim a refund later, which was not the airline's real rule.

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**Who acts:** website chatbot, man, refund · **What happens:** report, tell, claim, not be · **To what, where:** confidence, man, refund, real rule · **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 (website chatbot, man, refund), 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:9
# text = It was reported that an airline's website chatbot told a man he could claim a refund later, which was not the airline's real rule.
# 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	_	10	mark	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	airline	airline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	website	website	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	iobj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	refund	refund	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	airline	airline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	acl:relcl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a airline's website chatbot |  | a man |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | could | man | a refund |  |  |  | late *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent refund=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | past | a refund | the airline's real rule |  |  |  |  | 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:9`.

**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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