A chatbot relies on intonation cues to understand sentiment. Which mechanism explains why the bot misinterprets a sarcastic statement?

💡 Explanation

The chatbot's sentiment analysis fails because prosodic mismatch causes it to misinterpret the speaker's intention, leading to incorrect sentiment detection; therefore, the bot fails to recognize sarcasm, rather than syntactic complexity or lexical ambiguity being the root cause.

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