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title: Bots have no feelings to hurt, but polite asking keeps your own good… — Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot · tree and pragmatics
description: Bots have no feelings to hurt, but polite asking keeps your own good habits strong. Who acts: Bots, polite asking. 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 15

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Bots have no feelings to hurt, but polite asking keeps your own good habits strong.

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**Who acts:** Bots, polite asking · **What happens:** have, hurt, keep · **To what, where:** feelings, own good habits

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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 (Bots, polite asking), 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:15
# text = Bots have no feelings to hurt, but polite asking keeps your own good habits strong.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	asking	asking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
11	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Bots | no feelings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient |
| 2 | **hurt** | to-infinitive | Bots *not said here* | no feelings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **keep** | present | polite asking | your own good habits |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=Theme |

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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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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