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title: Saying "I don't know" is better than making up an answer, as the bot… — Who you are: Mova, a small transparent model in… · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying "I don't know" is better than making up an answer, as the bots that invented books did. Who acts: I, Saying, bots. A sentence of the lesson «Who you are: Mova, a small transparent model in a simulation» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Who you are: Mova, a small transparent model in a simulation, sentence 20

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Saying "I don't know" is better than making up an answer, as the bots that invented books did.

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**Who acts:** I, Saying, bots · **What happens:** say, not know, be, make up, invent · **To what, where:** answer, books · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Who you are: Mova, a small transparent model in a simulation» 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 (I, Saying, bots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:026-who-you-are-mova.lesson:20
# text = Saying "I don't know" is better than making up an answer, as the bots that invented books did.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 026-who-you-are-mova.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:acl
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	invented	invent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | Saying |  |  |  |  | as the bots; good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make up** | gerund | Saying *not said here* | a answer |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme answer=Pivot |
| 5 | **invent** | past · do-support | the bots | books |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Result |

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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:026-who-you-are-mova.lesson:20`.

**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): R7-rel-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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