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title: Bots tend to repeat the most common jokes, because those appeared mo… — Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot · tree and pragmatics
description: Bots tend to repeat the most common jokes, because those appeared most often in their training text. Who acts: Bots, those. 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 6

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Bots tend to repeat the most common jokes, because those appeared most often in their training text.

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**Who acts:** Bots, those · **What happens:** tend, repeat, appear · **To what, where:** common jokes, training text

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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, those), 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:6
# text = Bots tend to repeat the most common jokes, because those appeared most often in their training text.
# 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	Bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tend	tend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
12	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **tend** | present | Bots |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **repeat** | to-infinitive | Bots *not said here* | the common jokes |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Eventuality |
| 3 | **appear** | past | those |  |  | Jokes's training text |  | often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in text=Location |

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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:6`.

**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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