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title: A long word for a yes-man is "sycophantic". — Hallucinations: confident made-up answers · tree and pragmatics
description: A long word for a yes-man is "sycophantic". Who acts: long word. 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 3

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A long word for a yes-man is "sycophantic".

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**Who acts:** long word · **What happens:** be

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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 (long word), 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:3
# text = A long word for a yes-man is "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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sycophantic	sycophantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a long word for a yes man |  |  |  |  | sycophantic *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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**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): no change. **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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