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title: But a bot repeats popular beliefs as easily as facts. — Why the bot agrees too easily · tree and pragmatics
description: But a bot repeats popular beliefs as easily as facts. Who acts: 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 3

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But a bot repeats popular beliefs as easily as facts.

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**Who acts:** bot · **What happens:** repeat · **To what, where:** popular beliefs

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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 (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:3
# text = But a bot repeats popular beliefs as easily as facts.
# 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	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	repeats	repeat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	beliefs	belief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | present | a bot | popular beliefs |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belief=Eventuality |

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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:3`.

**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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