Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages, sentence 2
Some apps are built to hook you: an "AI friend" in a game that gets "sad" if you don't chat every day is using pretend feelings to keep you coming back.
Who acts: AI friend, you · What happens: build, hook, get, not chat, use, keep · To what, where: apps, you, sad, pretend feelings
This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages» 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 (AI friend, you), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 apps | det |
| 2 | apps | app | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 built | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | aux:pass |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hook | mark |
| 6 | hook | hook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 built | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 hook | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 friend | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 friend | det |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 friend | punct |
| 11 | AI | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 friend | compound |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 using | nsubj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 friend | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 game | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 game | det |
| 16 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 friend | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 gets | nsubj |
| 18 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 friend | acl:relcl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sad | punct |
| 20 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gets | obj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sad | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 chat | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 chat | nsubj |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 chat | aux |
| 25 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 chat | advmod |
| 26 | chat | chat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 gets | advcl |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 day | det |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 chat | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 using | aux |
| 30 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 built | parataxis |
| 31 | pretend | pretend | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 feelings | amod |
| 32 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 using | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 keep | mark |
| 34 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 using | advcl |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 keep | obj |
| 36 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 keep | xcomp |
| 37 | back | back | ADV | _ | 36 coming | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · passive | some apps | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | hook | to-infinitive | you | vn rotate-51.9.1-1 «NP V NP.extent»: agent=Theme you=Extent | |||||
| 3 | get | present | a AI friend in a game | sad | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sad=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not chat speech: other a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | day | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | use | present · progressive | a AI friend in a game | pretend feelings | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient | ||||
| 6 | keep | to-infinitive | a AI friend in a game not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come back | gerund | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:013-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages.lesson:2.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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