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title: Bots learned from British and American English and may mix spellings… — Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop · tree and pragmatics
description: Bots learned from British and American English and may mix spellings like "colour" and "color". Who acts: Bots. 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 9

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Bots learned from British and American English and may mix spellings like "colour" and "color".

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**Who acts:** Bots · **What happens:** learn, mix · **To what, where:** British English, spellings

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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), 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:9
# text = Bots learned from British and American English and may mix spellings like "colour" and "color".
# 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, R5-strong ×4
1	Bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
6	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
7	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	mix	mix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	spellings	spelling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | Bots | British English |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mix** | may | Bots *not said here* | spellings |  |  |  | like colour and color | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=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:008-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop.lesson:9`.

**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, R5-strong ×4. **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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