In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot, sentence 1
It was reported that lawyers in America gave a court a list of past cases to back up their argument, and the cases had been invented by a chatbot.
Who acts: lawyers, chatbot · What happens: report, give, back up, invent, list, argue · To what, where: news, list, court, argument, cases, past cases
This is a sentence of the lesson «In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot» 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 (lawyers, chatbot), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | aux:pass |
| 3 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 gave | mark |
| 5 | lawyers | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 America | case |
| 7 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lawyers | nmod |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 court | det |
| 10 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 list | det |
| 12 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cases | case |
| 14 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cases | amod |
| 15 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 list | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 back | mark |
| 17 | back | back | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gave | advcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 back | compound:prt |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 argument | nmod:poss |
| 20 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 back | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 invented | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 invented | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cases | det |
| 24 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 invented | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 invented | aux:pass |
| 27 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 reported | conj |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 chatbot | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 chatbot | det |
| 30 | chatbot | chatbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 invented | obl:agent |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past · passive | news | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | give | past | lawyers in America | a list of past cases | a court | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent court=Recipient list=Theme | |||
| 3 | back up | to-infinitive | lawyers in America not said here | lawyers's argument | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Agent | ||||
| 4 | invent | past · perfect · passive | a chatbot | the cases | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result | ||||
| 5 | list | past cases | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | argue | lawyers = lawyer | nom argument «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, 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:020-news-court-cases-airline.lesson:1.
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.
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