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title: Bots see words in chunks rather than single letters, so counting let… — Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot · tree and pragmatics
description: Bots see words in chunks rather than single letters, so counting letters, like the r's in "strawberry", can trip them up. Who acts: Bots. 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 ever
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# Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot, sentence 9

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Bots see words in chunks rather than single letters, so counting letters, like the r's in "strawberry", can trip them up.

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**Who acts:** Bots · **What happens:** see, count, trip up · **To what, where:** words, chunks

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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), 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:9
# text = Bots see words in chunks rather than single letters, so counting letters, like the r's in "strawberry", can trip them up.
# 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	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	chunks	chunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	9	cc	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	r	r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	trip	trip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **see** | present | Bots | words |  | chunks rather single letters and counting letters |  | like the r's strawberry | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **count** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **trip up** | can |  | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Agent |

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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:9`.

**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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