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title: Companies set safety rules for what their bots should not do, so a b… — Why the bot agrees too easily · tree and pragmatics
description: Companies set safety rules for what their bots should not do, so a bot may politely refuse a request. Who acts: Companies, bots, bot. A sentence of the lesson «Why the bot agrees too easily» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Why the bot agrees too easily, sentence 10

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Companies set safety rules for what their bots should not do, so a bot may politely refuse a request.

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**Who acts:** Companies, bots, bot · **What happens:** set, not do, refuse · **To what, where:** safety rules, request

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Why the bot agrees too easily» 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 (Companies, bots, bot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:006-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily.lesson:10
# text = Companies set safety rules for what their bots should not do, so a bot may politely refuse a request.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 006-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily.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	Companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nmod	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **set** | present | Companies | safety rules |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent rule=Patient for what=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **not** **do** | should | Companies's bots |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **refuse** | may | a bot | a request |  |  |  | politely *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme |

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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:006-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily.lesson:10`.

**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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