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title: So AI is a very fast, very well-read pattern-guesser: brilliant at t… — What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people · tree and pragmatics
description: So AI is a very fast, very well-read pattern-guesser: brilliant at the usual, shaky at the unusual, and not a person. Who acts: AI. 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 the pragmatics of every claus
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# What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people, sentence 5

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So AI is a very fast, very well-read pattern-guesser: brilliant at the usual, shaky at the unusual, and not a person.

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**Who acts:** AI · **What happens:** read, be · **To what, where:** fast read pattern guesser

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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 (AI), 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:5
# text = So AI is a very fast, very well-read pattern-guesser: brilliant at the usual, shaky at the unusual, and not a person.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
2	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
12	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	guesser	guesser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	shaky	shaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | AI | a fast read pattern guesser |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:5`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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