--- title: Being too keen to agree and praise is called being "sycophantic". — Hallucinations: confident made-up answers · tree and pragmatics description: Being too keen to agree and praise is called being "sycophantic". 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 pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/) / [Hallucinations: confident made-up answ…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/) / 11 # Hallucinations: confident made-up answers, sentence 11 Being too keen to agree and praise is called being "sycophantic". **What happens:** be, agree, call · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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: 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:11 # text = Being too keen to agree and praise is called being "sycophantic". # 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 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 cop _ _ 2 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 keen keen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 csubj:pass _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 cop _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 sycophantic sycophantic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | keen *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | sycophantic *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:11`. **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/). - ← previous: [Hallucinations: confident made-up answ…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/10/) - next →: [Hallucinations: confident made-up answ…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/)