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description: It was reported that a car seller's chatbot was tricked with clever wording into "agreeing" to sell a car for one dollar; it was not a real deal. Who acts: picture. A sentence of the lesson «In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety, sentence 13

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It was reported that a car seller's chatbot was tricked with clever wording into "agreeing" to sell a car for one dollar; it was not a real deal.

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**Who acts:** picture · **What happens:** report, trick, agree, sell, not be · **To what, where:** picture, chatbot, car, real deal

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This is a sentence of the lesson «In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety» 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 (picture), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:022-news-jobs-art-safety.lesson:13
# text = It was reported that a car seller's chatbot was tricked with clever wording into "agreeing" to sell a car for one dollar; it was not a real deal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 022-news-jobs-art-safety.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	expl	_	_
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	_	11	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	seller	seller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	tricked	trick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wording	wording	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	agreeing	agree	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	obl	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
33	.	.	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 |  | picture |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: clause=Theme |
| 2 | **trick** | past · passive |  | a car seller's chatbot |  |  |  | with clever wording | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **sell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a car |  |  |  | for one dollar | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent car=Theme for dollar=Asset |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | past | picture | a real deal |  |  |  |  | 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:022-news-jobs-art-safety.lesson:13`.

**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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