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title: When your phone suggests "time" after you type "Once upon a", it is… — What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people · tree and pragmatics
description: When your phone suggests "time" after you type "Once upon a", it is not reading your mind; it is betting on the most usual next word. Who acts: phone, you, your. A sentence of the lesson «What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people, sentence 3

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When your phone suggests "time" after you type "Once upon a", it is not reading your mind; it is betting on the most usual next word.

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**Who acts:** phone, you, your · **What happens:** suggest, type, not read, bet, mind · **To what, where:** mind

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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 (phone, you, your), 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:3
# text = When your phone suggests "time" after you type "Once upon a", it is not reading your mind; it is betting on the most usual next word.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	suggests	suggest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	type	type	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
12	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	obl	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	betting	bet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	30	advmod	_	_
30	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | your phone |  |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **type** | present | you |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **read** | present · progressive | phone | your mind |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Topic |
| 4 | **bet** | present · progressive | phone |  |  |  |  | on the usual next word | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on word=Theme |
| 5 | **mind** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:3`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-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/).

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