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title: Bots often cannot look inside themselves, so their explanations of t… — Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop · tree and pragmatics
description: Bots often cannot look inside themselves, so their explanations of their own mistakes may be made up. Who acts: Bots, own mistakes, explanations. A sentence of the lesson «Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop, sentence 12

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Bots often cannot look inside themselves, so their explanations of their own mistakes may be made up.

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**Who acts:** Bots, own mistakes, explanations · **What happens:** not look, make up, explain, mistake · **To what, where:** explanations

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop» 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 (Bots, own mistakes, explanations), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:008-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop.lesson:12
# text = Bots often cannot look inside themselves, so their explanations of their own mistakes may be made up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 008-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop.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	Bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	explanations	explanation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **look** | can | Bots |  |  |  |  | inside conversations *= conversation*; often *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent inside themselves=Theme |
| 2 | **make up** | may · passive |  | conversations's explanations of explanations's own mistakes |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
| 3 | **explain** |  | explanations's own mistakes |  |  |  |  |  | nom explanation «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **mistake** |  | explanations *= explanation* |  |  |  |  |  | nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=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): 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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