--- title: AI, short for artificial intelligence (artificial means made by peop… — What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people · tree and pragmatics description: AI, short for artificial intelligence (artificial means made by people, not grown by nature), is the name for computer programs that learn patterns from huge piles of examples instead of following only rules a person wrote line by line. Who acts: AI, computer programs, person. A sentence of the less --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/) / [What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/) / 0 # What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people, sentence 0 AI, short for artificial intelligence (artificial means made by people, not grown by nature), is the name for computer programs that learn patterns from huge piles of examples instead of following only rules a person wrote line by line. **Who acts:** AI, computer programs, person · **What happens:** make, not grow, be, learn, follow, write · **To what, where:** artificial means, people, name, patterns, huge piles, rules This is a sentence of the lesson «What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people» 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 (AI, computer programs, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ai:001-what-is-ai.lesson:0 # text = AI, short for artificial intelligence (artificial means made by people, not grown by nature), is the name for computer programs that learn patterns from huge piles of examples instead of following only rules a person wrote line by line. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ai # lesson = 001-what-is-ai.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 AI ai NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:_ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 amod _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 artificial artificial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 intelligence intelligence NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 8 artificial artificial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 means means NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 6 appos _ _ 10 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:agent _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 programs program NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 patterns pattern NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 piles pile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 examples example NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 34 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 36 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:advmod 35 of of ADP IN _ 34 fixed _ _ 36 following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 37 only only ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 42 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl:unmarked _ _ 43 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **make** | participle | | artificial means *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **not** **grow** | participle | | people *not said here* | | | | by nature | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by nature=Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | AI | the name | | | | for computer programs | tree rules | | 4 | **learn** | present | computer programs | patterns | | huge piles of examples | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pattern=Topic from pile=Source | | 5 | **follow** | gerund | computer programs *not said here* | rules | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | | 6 | **write** | past | a person | line by line | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:001-what-is-ai.lesson:0`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: plans in order and money sum…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/21/) - next →: [What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/)