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title: Dad puts it neatly: the bot does not "know" things the way you know… — Sounding right and being right · tree and pragmatics
description: Dad puts it neatly: the bot does not "know" things the way you know your own street; it knows how things are usually said about them. Who acts: Dad, bot, you, Most. 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 pr
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# Sounding right and being right, sentence 2

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Dad puts it neatly: the bot does not "know" things the way you know your own street; it knows how things are usually said about them.

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**Who acts:** Dad, bot, you, Most, sentences · **What happens:** put, not know, know, say · **To what, where:** Most, things, own street · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Dad, bot, you, Most), 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:2
# text = Dad puts it neatly: the bot does not "know" things the way you know your own street; it knows how things are usually said about them.
# 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	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:expl
4	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
25	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
29	about	about	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl:agent	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present | Dad | Most |  |  |  | neatly *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 2 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the bot | things |  |  |  | the way *obl:unmarked* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **know** | present | you | your own street |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer street=Stimulus |
| 4 | **know** | present | Most |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | sentences *= sentence* | things |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |

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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:003-sounding-right-and-being-right.lesson:2`.

**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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