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title: It was reported that lawyers in America handed a court cases a chatb… — Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: It was reported that lawyers in America handed a court cases a chatbot had invented and that the judge fined them. Who acts: lawyers, chatbot, judge. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★, sentence 15

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It was reported that lawyers in America handed a court cases a chatbot had invented and that the judge fined them.

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**Who acts:** lawyers, chatbot, judge · **What happens:** report, hand, invent, fine · **To what, where:** Hyperbole, court cases, cases

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★» 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 (lawyers, chatbot, judge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:032-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages.lesson:15
# text = It was reported that lawyers in America handed a court cases a chatbot had invented and that the judge fined them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 032-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	lawyers	lawyer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det
10	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fined	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | past · passive |  | Hyperbole |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **hand** | past | lawyers in America | a court cases |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Theme |
| 3 | **invent** | past · perfect | a chatbot | a court cases *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Result |
| 4 | **fine** | past | the judge | cases *= case* |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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:032-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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