--- title: Try it: tell a bot that 2 plus 2 is 5 because "my teacher says so",… — Sounding right and being right · tree and pragmatics description: Try it: tell a bot that 2 plus 2 is 5 because "my teacher says so", and some bots give in at once. Who acts: you, 2, teacher, bots. 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 of every clause. --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Sounding right and being right, sentence 5 Try it: tell a bot that 2 plus 2 is 5 because "my teacher says so", and some bots give in at once. **Who acts:** you, 2, teacher, bots · **What happens:** try, tell, be, say, give in · **To what, where:** street, bot, 5 · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, 2, teacher, bots), 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:5 # text = Try it: tell a bot that 2 plus 2 is 5 because "my teacher says so", and some bots give in at once. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Try try VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 bot bot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:mark|HaikuPos=PRON:IN:_ 8 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nsubj _ _ 9 plus plus CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 conj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 ccomp _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 17 ccomp _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 bots bot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 25 in in ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 once once ADV RB _ 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | imperative | you *not said here* | street | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | a bot | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bot=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** | present | 2 | 5 | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | my teacher | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **give in** | present | some bots | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Sounding right and being right, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/4/) - next →: [Sounding right and being right, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/)