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title: When a bot invents a confident answer that is not true, like a made-… — Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot · tree and pragmatics
description: 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". Who acts: bot, confident answer, book, people. A sentence of the lesson «Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot» of the ai course of Mova's primary 
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# Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot, sentence 3

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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".

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**Who acts:** bot, confident answer, book, people · **What happens:** invent, not be, make, not exist, call · **To what, where:** confident answer, answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (bot, confident answer, book, people), 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:3
# text = 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".
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	invents	invent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	confident	confident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:compound
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
33	hallucination	hallucination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	xcomp	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	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 | **invent** | present | a bot | a confident answer |  |  |  | like a made head teacher or a book | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Result |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | a confident answer |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **not** **exist** | present · do-support | a book |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **call** | present | people | answer |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |

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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:3`.

**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): 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/).

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