The sample dialogs below are actual sequences produced by interactions with Babble. In fact these are taken from Babble's reqression test. The text in blue shows the input to Babble, the text in red is Babble's response. The text in black discusses the significance of the passage.
 

Ian gave Emma the big red ball.
She liked it.
Who liked the ball?

Emma
What color is the ball?
red
 

Sentences describing simple events, (in this case a give and a like event) are very easy for Babble to understand. Notice Babble has to resolve both She and it to answer the first question.


What is the capital of Texas?
austin
  Here Babble's stored knowledge is queried. Babble doesn't agonize over capitalization.

Jumbo is a elephant.
What size is Jumbo?
big
Jumbo is small.
What size is Jumbo?
small
  Babble's ability to transfer properties of a category to the members is part of Babble's if-then reasoning system. However, Babble will give priority to properties assigned to an individual over the category's properties.

The car Fred drives Paul likes.
Who likes the car?
Paul
Paul drove the car that has the roof that leaks.
What leaks?
roof
What has the roof?
car
  These examples that have somewhat harder syntaxes. The first sentence is especially tricky to figure out who's doing the driving and who's doing the liking.

The car that Jeff drove to the store that sold electronics crashed.
? r/destination
What crashed?
car
What sold electronics?
store
  Another example with many clauses, one of which Babble is complaining about. It doesn't know how to interpret the destination in the to clause. The point of this example is that even though Babble couldn't figure out the to clause, it could still get meaning from the rest of the sentence.

Dan drives the big white car.
Karen drives the little red car.
Who drives the red car?
Karen
Who drives the big car?
Dan
Who drives the little green car?
I don't know.
  This example demonstrates Babble's ability to differentiate three different cars based on their properties.

Robyn is the mother of Tyler.
Who is the child of Robyn?
Tyler
  This is another example of Babble's if-then reasoning, in this case using its knowledge of the relationship between mother and child. If-then knowledge is also represented by tridbits.

The last name of John is Smith.
What is the name of John?
I don't know.
What is the last name of John?
smith
  Names are a special type of property. Babble differentiates "last name" from the unqualified attribute of name.

Who are you?
Babble
You are hot.
Who is hot?
Babble

  Babble knows who it is and can process information about itself.

Who am I?
Karen
I drink tea.
Who drinks tea?
Karen
  Babble also knows about the person it is talking to, who is required to log in.