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title: A chatbot is very good at sounding right, but sounding right is not… — Sounding right and being right · tree and pragmatics
description: A chatbot is very good at sounding right, but sounding right is not the same as being right. Who acts: chatbot, sounding. 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.
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# Sounding right and being right, sentence 8

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A chatbot is very good at sounding right, but sounding right is not the same as being right.

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**Who acts:** chatbot, sounding · **What happens:** be, sound, not be

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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 (chatbot, sounding), 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:8
# text = A chatbot is very good at sounding right, but sounding right is not the same as being right.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
7	sounding	sound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl
8	right	right	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	sounding	sound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	csubj	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
19	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | a chatbot |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sound** | gerund | a chatbot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sound** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | sounding |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | gerund | sounding *not said here* |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5. **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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