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title: Long extra explanations can hide mistakes, even when the main answer… — Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot · tree and pragmatics
description: Long extra explanations can hide mistakes, even when the main answer is right. Who acts: Long extra explanations, main answer. A sentence of the lesson «Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot, sentence 14

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Long extra explanations can hide mistakes, even when the main answer is right.

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**Who acts:** Long extra explanations, main answer · **What happens:** hide, be · **To what, where:** mistakes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot» 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 (Long extra explanations, main answer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:004-stories-jokes-and-riddles.lesson:14
# text = Long extra explanations can hide mistakes, even when the main answer is right.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 004-stories-jokes-and-riddles.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	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	explanations	explanation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
15	.	.	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 | **hide** | can | Long extra explanations | mistakes |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the main answer |  |  |  |  | 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:004-stories-jokes-and-riddles.lesson:14`.

**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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