--- title: Asking a bot for steps and for its sources makes its answers easier… — Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop · tree and pragmatics description: Asking a bot for steps and for its sources makes its answers easier to check. Who acts: Asking, 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop/8/) [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/) / [Asking well, being polite, knowing whe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop/) / 8 # Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop, sentence 8 Asking a bot for steps and for its sources makes its answers easier to check. **Who acts:** Asking, bot · **What happens:** ask, make, check, answer · **To what, where:** bot 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 (Asking, 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:8 # text = Asking a bot for steps and for its sources makes its answers easier to check. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bot bot NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 sources source NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 10 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 answers answer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:ccomp 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | a bot | | | | for steps and bot's sources | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bot=Recipient | | 2 | **make** | present | Asking | | | | | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **check** | to-infinitive | Asking *not said here* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **answer** | | bot | | | | | | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Asking well, being polite, knowing whe…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop/7/) - next →: [Asking well, being polite, knowing whe…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop/)