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title: Lily says to a bot, "My favourite colour is green, right?" and it ch… — Hallucinations: confident made-up answers · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily says to a bot, "My favourite colour is green, right?" and it cheerfully agrees, though she never told it. Who acts: Lily, favourite colour, colour. A sentence of the lesson «Hallucinations: confident made-up answers» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Hallucinations: confident made-up answers, sentence 0

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Lily says to a bot, "My favourite colour is green, right?" and it cheerfully agrees, though she never told it.

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**Who acts:** Lily, favourite colour, colour · **What happens:** say, be, agree, not tell · **To what, where:** bot, colour · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hallucinations: confident made-up answers» 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 (Lily, favourite colour, colour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:005-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers.lesson:0
# text = Lily says to a bot, "My favourite colour is green, right?" and it cheerfully agrees, though she never told it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 005-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
8	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	agrees	agree	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | Lily |  | a bot |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bot=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | My favourite colour |  |  |  |  | green *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | colour |  |  |  |  | cheerfully *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Lily |  | colour |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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:005-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers.lesson:0`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×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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