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title: It was reported that chatbots sometimes give wrong or out-of-date an… — In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, car… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was reported that chatbots sometimes give wrong or out-of-date answers about elections; official election websites are the place to check. Who acts: chatbots, official election websites. A sentence of the lesson «In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words» of the ai course of Mova
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# In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words, sentence 8

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It was reported that chatbots sometimes give wrong or out-of-date answers about elections; official election websites are the place to check.

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**Who acts:** chatbots, official election websites · **What happens:** report, give, be, check · **To what, where:** AI, wrong date answers, place

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This is a sentence of the lesson «In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words» 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 (chatbots, official election websites), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:023-news-tricked-bots-discoveries.lesson:8
# text = It was reported that chatbots sometimes give wrong or out-of-date answers about elections; official election websites are the place to check.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 023-news-tricked-bots-discoveries.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): 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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	chatbots	chatbot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	websites	website	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	.	.	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 |  | AI |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **give** | present | chatbots | wrong date answers |  |  |  | about elections; sometimes *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | official election websites | the place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **check** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:023-news-tricked-bots-discoveries.lesson:8`.

**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): 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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