--- title: Cars, doctors, scientists and translators — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Cars, doctors, scientists and translators», a lesson of the ai course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: AI already works quietly in lots of grown-up jobs: it translates letters, reads menus aloud, writes captions, sorts emails and carrie --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/) [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/) / Cars, doctors, scientists and translat… # Cars, doctors, scientists and translators Lesson 18 of the ai course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/0/) — AI already works quietly in lots of grown-up jobs: it translates letters, reads menus aloud, writes captions, sorts emails and carries plates in some restaurants. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/1/) — Picture Grandad holding his phone over a menu he cannot read; the phone reads it out, and suddenly he can choose his own dinner again. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/2/) — But every one of these helpers is a guesser: captions can turn a word into "duck", a translation can twist an important letter, and a quiz made by AI can have a wrong answer. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/3/) — So the good habit is the same at school, at work and at home: use the helper, then check the parts that matter. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/4/) — Music apps learn from your listening habits and build playlists of songs like the ones you already play. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/5/) — A playlist made only from your old habits rarely brings you something truly new. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/6/) — Translation tools help families who speak other languages understand letters, but they can make mistakes. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/7/) — Important translations should be checked by a person who speaks both languages. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/9/) — Automatic captions guess words from sound and sometimes mishear, which matters a lot for deaf viewers. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/10/) — Automated phone calls, or robocalls, use recorded or AI voices; some are surveys and some are scams. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/11/) — "People like you also bought" lists are made to help shops sell you more. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/12/) — Photo apps can recognise the same face across many photos and group them together; that means faces are stored somewhere, which is a privacy worry. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/13/) — Teachers and other workers use AI tools to save time, and they need to check the results. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/14/) — AI can sort emails at work and save time, but it sometimes puts important ones in the wrong pile. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/15/) — Some restaurants use simple robots, guided by sensors, to carry food to tables. - ← previous: [Voice assistants and recommendations](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/) - next →: [Counting the AI in one ordinary day](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/) - ↑ back to [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/)