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title: Ask what your dream "means" and it may give a long tale of hidden me… — Why the bot agrees too easily · tree and pragmatics
description: Ask what your dream "means" and it may give a long tale of hidden meanings, though scientists find no fixed code for dreams. Who acts: you, dream, scientists, your. 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 pra
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# Why the bot agrees too easily, sentence 4

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Ask what your dream "means" and it may give a long tale of hidden meanings, though scientists find no fixed code for dreams.

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**Who acts:** you, dream, scientists, your, hidden meanings · **What happens:** ask, mean, give, find, fix, dream · **To what, where:** long tale, fixed code · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, dream, scientists, your), 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:4
# text = Ask what your dream "means" and it may give a long tale of hidden meanings, though scientists find no fixed code for dreams.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	1	obj	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	meanings	meaning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
23	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	code	code	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
| 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | your dream |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | may | dream | a long tale of hidden meanings |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | present | scientists | no fixed code |  |  |  | for dreams | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent code=Theme for dream=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **fix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **dream** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **tell** |  | hidden meanings |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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**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 ×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.

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