--- title: Computers are fast at sums and storing facts but weak at common sens… — Sounding right and being right · tree and pragmatics description: Computers are fast at sums and storing facts but weak at common sense, such as knowing when a joke hurts someone. Who acts: Computers, common sense, joke. A sentence of the lesson «Sounding right and being right» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/) / [Sounding right and being right](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/) / 15 # Sounding right and being right, sentence 15 Computers are fast at sums and storing facts but weak at common sense, such as knowing when a joke hurts someone. **Who acts:** Computers, common sense, joke · **What happens:** be, store, know, hurt · **To what, where:** sums, facts, common sense, someone This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounding right and being right» 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 (Computers, common sense, joke), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ai:003-sounding-right-and-being-right.lesson:15 # text = Computers are fast at sums and storing facts but weak at common sense, such as knowing when a joke hurts someone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ai # lesson = 003-sounding-right-and-being-right.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 Computers computer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 sums sum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 storing store VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 8 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 17 mark _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 knowing know VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:ccomp 22 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 21 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Computers | | | sums | | fast *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **store** | gerund | Computers *not said here* | facts | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme | | 3 | **be** | | Computers *not said here* | | | common sense | | | tree rules | | 4 | **know** | gerund | common sense *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **hurt** | present | a joke | someone | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient | 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. **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:003-sounding-right-and-being-right.lesson:15`. **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/). - ← previous: [Sounding right and being right, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/14/) - next →: [Sounding right and being right, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/)