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title: Knowing the answer to a famous riddle is not the same as solving a n… — Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot · tree and pragmatics
description: Knowing the answer to a famous riddle is not the same as solving a new one. Who acts: Knowing. 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 8

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Knowing the answer to a famous riddle is not the same as solving a new one.

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**Who acts:** Knowing · **What happens:** know, not be, solve · **To what, where:** answer, new one

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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 (Knowing), 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:8
# text = Knowing the answer to a famous riddle is not the same as solving a new one.
# 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	Knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	solving	solve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **know** | gerund |  | the answer |  |  |  | to a famous riddle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | Knowing |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **solve** | gerund | Knowing *not said here* | a new one |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |

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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:8`.

**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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