Why the bot agrees too easily, sentence 4
Ask what your dream "means" and it may give a long tale of hidden meanings, though scientists find no fixed code for dreams.
Who acts: you, dream, scientists, your, hidden meanings · What happens: ask, mean, give, find, fix, dream · To what, where: long tale, fixed code · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, dream, scientists, your), 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Ask | obj |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dream | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 give | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ask | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tale | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tale | amod |
| 14 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 meanings | case |
| 16 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 meanings | amod |
| 17 | meanings | meaning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tale | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 find | punct |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 find | mark |
| 20 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 find | nsubj |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | advcl |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 code | det |
| 23 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 code | amod |
| 24 | code | code | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 dreams | case |
| 26 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 code | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | your dream | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | may | dream | a long tale of hidden meanings | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | present | scientists | no fixed code | for dreams | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent code=Theme for dream=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | fix | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | dream | your | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | tell | hidden meanings | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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:006-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily.lesson:4.
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): R6-punct-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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