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title: It may also be out of date, and it follows exactly what you ask: tel… — Why the bot agrees too easily · tree and pragmatics
description: It may also be out of date, and it follows exactly what you ask: tell it to pick a football team "from my mates" and it will leave the new boy out without a thought for fairness. Who acts: dream, you. A sentence of the lesson «Why the bot agrees too easily» of the ai course of Mova's primary school 
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# Why the bot agrees too easily, sentence 5

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It may also be out of date, and it follows exactly what you ask: tell it to pick a football team "from my mates" and it will leave the new boy out without a thought for fairness.

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**Who acts:** dream, you · **What happens:** be, follow, ask, tell, pick, leave · **To what, where:** date, dream, football team, mates, new boy · **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 (dream, you), 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:5
# text = It may also be out of date, and it follows exactly what you ask: tell it to pick a football team "from my mates" and it will leave the new boy out without a thought for fairness.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	out	out	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
37	without	without	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	fairness	fairness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed voice=narrator, hedge=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | dream |  |  | date |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | present | dream | date |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | dream |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **pick** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a football team |  | my mates |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent team=Theme from mate=Source |
| 6 | **leave** | future | dream | the new boy |  |  |  | without a thought for fairness; out *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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:5`.

**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): R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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