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title: If one bot says something and another bot says the opposite, they ca… — Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: If one bot says something and another bot says the opposite, they cannot both be right, but both could be sure of themselves. Who acts: one bot, bot, bots, both. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★, sentence 6

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If one bot says something and another bot says the opposite, they cannot both be right, but both could be sure of themselves.

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**Who acts:** one bot, bot, bots, both · **What happens:** say, not be, be · **To what, where:** something, opposite · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (one bot, bot, bots, both), 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:6
# text = If one bot says something and another bot says the opposite, they cannot both be right, but both could be sure of themselves.
# 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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	dep	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one bot | something |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | another bot | the opposite |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **is** | can | bots *= bot* |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | could | both |  |  |  |  | of bots *= bot*; sure *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:032-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages.lesson:6`.

**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): no change. **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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