--- title: Give it a brand-new riddle, a silly trick question or a big sum, and… — Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: you, text. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, text), 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:2 # text = 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. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 iobj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 brand brand ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 riddle riddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 22 just just ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 as as ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 confidently confidently ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 29 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | a new riddle and a silly trick question or a big sum | text | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient riddle=Theme | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | may | text | | | | | confidently *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **get** | infinitive | text *not said here* | text | | | | wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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. **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:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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/). - ← previous: [Stories, jokes and riddles with a chat…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/1/) - next →: [Stories, jokes and riddles with a chat…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/)