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title: A good answer comes with reasons, so ask "why?" rather than only "ar… — Hallucinations: confident made-up answers · tree and pragmatics
description: A good answer comes with reasons, so ask "why?" rather than only "are you sure?". Who acts: good answer, you. 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 17

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A good answer comes with reasons, so ask "why?" rather than only "are you sure?".

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**Who acts:** good answer, you · **What happens:** come, ask, be · **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 (good answer, you), 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:17
# text = A good answer comes with reasons, so ask "why?" rather than only "are you sure?".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	parataxis	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
14	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	9	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **come** | present | a good answer |  |  |  |  | with reasons | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |

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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:17`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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