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title: Why might laws about AI be hard to get right? — In the news: jobs, art and copying, ch… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might laws about AI be hard to get right? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 22 «In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★★ · In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety

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Why might laws about AI be hard to get right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** laws · **What happens:** be, get

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 22 «In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety» of the AI course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/22-news-jobs-art-safety/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:22-news-jobs-art-safety:t9:1
# text = Why might laws about AI be hard to get right?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	csubj	_	_
10	right	right	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | might | laws about AI |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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AI already writes all of its own laws

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:22-news-jobs-art-safety:t9:o1:1
# text = AI already writes all of its own laws
1	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	already	already	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | AI | all |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Laws never apply to computers or phones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:22-news-jobs-art-safety:t9:o2:1
# text = Laws never apply to computers or phones
1	Laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	apply	apply	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	computers	computer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **apply** | present | Laws |  |  |  |  | to computers or phones | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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They can be too slow or too strict

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:22-news-jobs-art-safety:t9:o3:1
# text = They can be too slow or too strict
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | They |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Nobody is allowed to write laws about AI

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:22-news-jobs-art-safety:t9:o4:1
# text = Nobody is allowed to write laws about AI
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | present · passive |  | Nobody |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **write** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Nobody *not said here* | laws |  |  |  | about AI | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent law=Recipient about ai=Topic |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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