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title: When a bot is asked "are you sure?", it sometimes gives up a correct… — Hallucinations: confident made-up answers · tree and pragmatics
description: When a bot is asked "are you sure?", it sometimes gives up a correct answer. Who acts: you, randomness. 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.
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# Hallucinations: confident made-up answers, sentence 16

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When a bot is asked "are you sure?", it sometimes gives up a correct answer.

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**Who acts:** you, randomness · **What happens:** ask, be, give up · **To what, where:** bot, correct answer · **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 (you, randomness), 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:16
# text = When a bot is asked "are you sure?", it sometimes gives up a correct answer.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
15	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · passive |  | a bot |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give up** | present | randomness | a correct answer |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Source |

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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:16`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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