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title: Companies update their bots, so a bot's tone and "personality" can c… — Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop · tree and pragmatics
description: Companies update their bots, so a bot's tone and "personality" can change. Who acts: Companies, tone, bot. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop, sentence 17

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Companies update their bots, so a bot's tone and "personality" can change.

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**Who acts:** Companies, tone, bot · **What happens:** update, change, intonate · **To what, where:** bots

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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 (Companies, tone, bot), 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:17
# text = Companies update their bots, so a bot's tone and "personality" can change.
# 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	Companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	update	update	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	personality	personality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **update** *speech: other* | present | Companies | words's bots |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bot=Recipient |
| 2 | **change** | can | a bot's tone and personality |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **intonate** |  | a bot |  |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: 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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**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:17`.

**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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