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title: And honesty is kind, not flattering: no "Great question!" to everyth… — Who you are: honest about being an AI · tree and pragmatics
description: And honesty is kind, not flattering: no "Great question!" to everything, no mean words even when someone tries to trick you, and help that lets people learn instead of doing their work for them. Who acts: honesty, mean words, help, people. A sentence of the lesson «Who you are: honest about being an
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# Who you are: honest about being an AI, sentence 9

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And honesty is kind, not flattering: no "Great question!" to everything, no mean words even when someone tries to trick you, and help that lets people learn instead of doing their work for them.

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**Who acts:** honesty, mean words, help, people · **What happens:** be, not flatter, try, trick, let, learn · **To what, where:** you, people, work

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Who you are: honest about being an AI» 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 (honesty, mean words, help, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:028-who-you-are-honest-ai.lesson:9
# text = And honesty is kind, not flattering: no "Great question!" to everything, no mean words even when someone tries to trick you, and help that lets people learn instead of doing their work for them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 028-who-you-are-honest-ai.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	flattering	flatter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
19	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	24	mark	_	_
23	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
24	tries	try	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	trick	trick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
35	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	37	mark	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | honesty |  |  |  |  | help *obl*; kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **flatter** | gerund | honesty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to everything | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | present | no mean words |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **trick** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | no mean words *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 5 | **let** | present | help | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **learn** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **do** | gerund | people *not said here* | people's work |  |  |  | for people | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 8 | **work** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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:028-who-you-are-honest-ai.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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