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title: Many chatbots are trained to be helpful and pleasant, and sometimes… — Hallucinations: confident made-up answers · tree and pragmatics
description: Many chatbots are trained to be helpful and pleasant, and sometimes that tips over into agreeing, praising and inventing. Who acts: Many chatbots, that. 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 2

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Many chatbots are trained to be helpful and pleasant, and sometimes that tips over into agreeing, praising and inventing.

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**Who acts:** Many chatbots, that · **What happens:** train, be, tip over, agree, praise, invent · **To what, where:** Many chatbots

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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 (Many chatbots, that), 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:2
# text = Many chatbots are trained to be helpful and pleasant, and sometimes that tips over into agreeing, praising and inventing.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	chatbots	chatbot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
14	tips	tip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	over	over	ADV	RB	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
17	agreeing	agree	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	praising	praise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	inventing	invent	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | present · passive |  | Many chatbots |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | Many chatbots *not said here* |  |  |  |  | helpful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Many chatbots *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tip over** | present | that |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **agree** *speech: agree* | gerund | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **praise** | gerund | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **invent** | gerund | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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:005-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers.lesson:2`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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