--- title: Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot», a lesson of the ai course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Jokes and famous riddles come easily too, but they are often the oldest ones, like the scarecrow "outstanding in his field", because --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/) [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/) / Stories, jokes and riddles with a chat… # Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot Lesson 4 of the ai course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/1/) — Jokes and famous riddles come easily too, but they are often the oldest ones, like the scarecrow "outstanding in his field", because those appear most often in the text it learned from. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/2/) — Give it a brand-new riddle, a silly trick question or a big sum, and it may answer just as confidently and get it badly wrong. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/3/) — When a bot invents a confident answer that is not true, like a made-up head teacher or a book that does not exist, people call it a "hallucination". - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/4/) — So play, laugh and enjoy beating the bot at your own riddles, and check anything that matters. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/5/) — Chatbots are good at writing stories because they learned from huge numbers of stories. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/6/) — Bots tend to repeat the most common jokes, because those appeared most often in their training text. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/7/) — Asking for a joke about something very specific, like your own hamster, pushes a bot away from the oldest jokes. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/8/) — Knowing the answer to a famous riddle is not the same as solving a new one. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/9/) — Bots see words in chunks rather than single letters, so counting letters, like the r's in "strawberry", can trip them up. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/10/) — "Strawberry" has three r's. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/11/) — Some chatbots guess numbers like words, so big sums can come out wrong; check with a calculator. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/12/) — A confident made-up answer from a bot is called a hallucination. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/13/) — Bots can invent book titles and authors that sound real but do not exist. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/14/) — Long extra explanations can hide mistakes, even when the main answer is right. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/15/) — Bots have no feelings to hurt, but polite asking keeps your own good habits strong. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/16/) — How you talk to machines can become how you talk to people. - ← previous: [Sounding right and being right](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/) - next →: [Hallucinations: confident made-up answers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/) - ↑ back to [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/)