--- title: Smart speakers listen for a wake word and sometimes switch on by mis… — Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up · tree and pragmatics description: Smart speakers listen for a wake word and sometimes switch on by mistake when they hear a word that sounds like it; grown-ups can mute them or check their settings. Who acts: Smart speakers, speakers, word, grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up» of the ai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/15/) [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/) / [Secrets, scams and always telling a gr…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/) / 15 # Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up, sentence 15 Smart speakers listen for a wake word and sometimes switch on by mistake when they hear a word that sounds like it; grown-ups can mute them or check their settings. **Who acts:** Smart speakers, speakers, word, grown ups · **What happens:** listen, switch on, hear, sound, mute, check · **To what, where:** word, speakers, settings This is a sentence of the lesson «Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up» 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 (Smart speakers, speakers, word, grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ai:016-secrets-scams-telling.lesson:15 # text = Smart speakers listen for a wake word and sometimes switch on by mistake when they hear a word that sounds like it; grown-ups can mute them or check their settings. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ai # lesson = 016-secrets-scams-telling.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 speakers speaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 listen listen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 wake wake NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 9 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 10 advmod _ _ 10 switch switch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 on on ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 12 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 24 grown grown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 mute mute VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=28:cc 31 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 settings setting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | present | Smart speakers | | | | | for a wake word | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for word=Theme | | 2 | **switch on** | present | Smart speakers *not said here* | | | | | by mistake; sometimes *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **hear** | present | speakers *= speaker* | a word | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 4 | **sound** | present | a word | | | | | like word | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **mute** | can | grown ups | speakers *= speaker* | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 6 | **check** | infinitive | grown ups *not said here* | speakers's settings | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent setting=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:016-secrets-scams-telling.lesson:15`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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: [Secrets, scams and always telling a gr…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/14/) - next →: [Secrets, scams and always telling a gr…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/)