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title: It was reported that scammers use AI to copy voices from short clips… — Keep yourself private, and voices that lie · tree and pragmatics
description: It was reported that scammers use AI to copy voices from short clips found online. Who acts: scammers. A sentence of the lesson «Keep yourself private, and voices that lie» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Keep yourself private, and voices that lie, sentence 12

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It was reported that scammers use AI to copy voices from short clips found online.

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**Who acts:** scammers · **What happens:** report, use, copy, find · **To what, where:** fix, AI, voices, short clips

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Keep yourself private, and voices that lie» 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 (scammers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:012-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie.lesson:12
# text = It was reported that scammers use AI to copy voices from short clips found online.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 012-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie.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): no change
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	scammers	scammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	copy	copy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	clips	clip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	online	online	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | past · passive |  | fix |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **use** | present | scammers | AI |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ai=Patient |
| 3 | **copy** | to-infinitive | scammers *not said here* | voices |  | short clips |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | participle |  | short clips *not said here* |  |  |  | online *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=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:012-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie.lesson:12`.

**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): no change. **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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