What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people, sentence 7
A chatbot's friendly greeting is the kind of reply its training makes likely; it does not mean someone is alive inside it.
Who acts: friendly greeting, training, it, someone, chatbot, greeting · What happens: be, make, not mean, greet, train · To what, where: kind, reply, greeting · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people» 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 (friendly greeting, training, it, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chatbot | det |
| 2 | chatbot | chatbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 greeting | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 chatbot | case |
| 4 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 greeting | amod |
| 5 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kind | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 kind | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kind | det |
| 8 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 reply | case |
| 10 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kind | nmod |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 training | nmod:poss |
| 12 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 makes | nsubj |
| 13 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 reply | acl:relcl |
| 14 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 makes | xcomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 mean | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 mean | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 mean | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 mean | advmod |
| 19 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 kind | parataxis |
| 20 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 alive | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 alive | cop |
| 22 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mean | ccomp |
| 23 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 alive | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a chatbot's friendly greeting | the kind | of reply | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | present | greeting's training | reply not said here | likely property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reply=Product | |||
| 3 | not mean | present · do-support | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | someone | greeting | alive property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | greet | a chatbot | nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | train | greeting | nom training «act 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, 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:001-what-is-ai.lesson:7.
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 ×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.
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