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title: A bot cannot see outside; some assistants can look up the weather on… — Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop · tree and pragmatics
description: A bot cannot see outside; some assistants can look up the weather online, but your eyes are better for what is in front of you. Who acts: bot, assistants, eyes. 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 tr
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# Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop, sentence 14

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A bot cannot see outside; some assistants can look up the weather online, but your eyes are better for what is in front of you.

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**Who acts:** bot, assistants, eyes · **What happens:** not see, look up, be · **To what, where:** weather

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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 (bot, assistants, eyes), 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:14
# text = A bot cannot see outside; some assistants can look up the weather online, but your eyes are better for what is in front of you.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	assistants	assistant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	online	online	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | can | a bot |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **look up** | can | some assistants | the weather |  |  |  | online *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme weather=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | present | your eyes |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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:008-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop.lesson:14`.

**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 ×2. **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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