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title: Asking for a joke about something very specific, like your own hamst… — Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot · tree and pragmatics
description: Asking for a joke about something very specific, like your own hamster, pushes a bot away from the oldest jokes. Who acts: 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 claus
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# Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot, sentence 7

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Asking for a joke about something very specific, like your own hamster, pushes a bot away from the oldest jokes.

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**Who acts:** Asking · **What happens:** ask, push · **To what, where:** bot

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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 (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:7
# text = Asking for a joke about something very specific, like your own hamster, pushes a bot away from the oldest jokes.
# 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	Asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	csubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nmod	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	specific	specific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hamster	hamster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for a joke about something; like your own hamster | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **push** | present | Asking | a bot |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bot=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:7`.

**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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