--- title: Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree», a lesson of the ai course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Sometimes a bot surprises you with a fact that sounds made up, such as "an octopus has three hearts", and it turns out to be t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/) / Pretend games, quotes and two bots tha… # Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree Lesson 7 of the ai course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/0/) — Sometimes a bot surprises you with a fact that sounds made up, such as "an octopus has three hearts", and it turns out to be true. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/1/) — Surprising does not mean false, and it does not mean true either: it means check. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/2/) — Bots love the expected. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/3/) — Ask one to finish your comic and you may get the most ordinary ending there is, which is a fine "boring version" for you to beat. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/4/) — A bot can say "I enjoy chatting with you", but it says the same kind of thing to everyone; and it can call you "kind, clever and creative" without knowing anything about you. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/5/) — It cannot see the future, so it invents next week's episode. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/6/) — It can drop the sugar from a cookie recipe. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/7/) — And for anything that could hurt you, like a wild mushroom, the answer always goes to a grown-up. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/8/) — An octopus really has three hearts; some surprising facts are true. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/9/) — Surprising facts deserve a quick check, whether they turn out true or false. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/10/) — Bots often choose the most expected ending for a story. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/11/) — A bot's friendliness is the same for everyone; "enjoy" is a figure of speech for a bot. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/12/) — In long conversations a bot can lose track of things said much earlier. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/13/) — Board-game tips are well written about online, so bots can give real ones. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/14/) — Words like "kind, clever and creative" fit almost anyone, so they tell you nothing about you. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/15/) — A bot cannot know the future or secret scripts; its predictions are invented. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/16/) — Even simple recipes from a bot can have mistakes, such as a missing ingredient. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/17/) — Some wild mushrooms are deadly poisonous; never eat one because a bot, a website or a friend says it is fine. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/18/) — A bot and a child are good at different things; comparing yourself to a machine is not useful; compare yourself with yourself last year instead. - ← previous: [Why the bot agrees too easily](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily/) - next →: [Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop/) - ↑ back to [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/)