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title: A bot and a child are good at different things; comparing yourself t… — Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: bot, comparing. A sentence of the lesson «Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree, sentence 18

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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.

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**Who acts:** bot, comparing · **What happens:** be, compare, not be · **To what, where:** different things, yourself

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree» 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, comparing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:007-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots.lesson:18
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 007-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	comparing	compare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
13	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
22	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obl	_	_
25	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a bot and a child |  |  | different things |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **compare** | gerund |  | yourself |  |  |  | to a machine | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | comparing |  |  |  |  | useful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **compare** | infinitive |  | yourself |  |  | year | with yourself; instead *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient with yourself=Co-Patient |

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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:007-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots.lesson:18`.

**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): R7-rel-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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