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title: A bot can be a good practice partner, for example quizzing times tab… — The essay the teacher spotted · tree and pragmatics
description: A bot can be a good practice partner, for example quizzing times tables. Who acts: bot, good practice partner. A sentence of the lesson «The essay the teacher spotted» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The essay the teacher spotted, sentence 17

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A bot can be a good practice partner, for example quizzing times tables.

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**Who acts:** bot, good practice partner · **What happens:** be, quiz · **To what, where:** good practice partner, times tables

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The essay the teacher spotted» 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, good practice partner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.lesson:17
# text = A bot can be a good practice partner, for example quizzing times tables.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	partner	partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	quizzing	quiz	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	compound	_	_
14	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | can | a bot | a good practice partner |  |  |  | for example | tree rules |
| 2 | **quiz** | gerund | a good practice partner *not said here* | times tables |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent table=Location |

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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:009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.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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