Why the bot agrees too easily, sentence 17
On matters of taste, like cats versus dogs, there is no single right answer, so bots usually avoid taking sides.
Who acts: single right answer, bots, taste · What happens: be, avoid, take, matter · To what, where: matters, sides
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why the bot agrees too easily» 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 (single right answer, bots, taste), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 matters | case |
| 2 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 is | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 taste | case |
| 4 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 matters | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cats | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 cats | case |
| 7 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 matters | nmod |
| 8 | versus | versus | ADP | _ | 9 dogs | case |
| 9 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cats | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 matters | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 answer | det |
| 14 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 answer | amod |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 answer | amod |
| 16 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 is | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 avoid | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 avoid | advmod |
| 19 | bots | bot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 avoid | nsubj |
| 20 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 21 avoid | advmod |
| 21 | avoid | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 is | parataxis |
| 22 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 avoid | xcomp |
| 23 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 taking | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no single right answer | matters of taste like cats versus dogs; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on matter=Location | ||||
| 2 | avoid | present | bots | usually property | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | bots not said here | sides | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme | ||||
| 4 | matter | taste | like cats versus dogs | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent like=obl |
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:006-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily.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): 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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