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title: Adverts usually follow what you searched and watched online; it is n… — Counting the AI in one ordinary day · tree and pragmatics
description: Adverts usually follow what you searched and watched online; it is not proven that phones secretly listen to talk to choose adverts, though many people wonder. Who acts: Adverts, you, phones, many people. A sentence of the lesson «Counting the AI in one ordinary day» of the ai course of Mova's prima
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# Counting the AI in one ordinary day, sentence 14

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Adverts usually follow what you searched and watched online; it is not proven that phones secretly listen to talk to choose adverts, though many people wonder.

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**Who acts:** Adverts, you, phones, many people · **What happens:** follow, search, watch, not prove, listen, talk · **To what, where:** AI, adverts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting the AI in one ordinary day» 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 (Adverts, you, phones, many people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:019-ai-in-one-ordinary-day.lesson:14
# text = Adverts usually follow what you searched and watched online; it is not proven that phones secretly listen to talk to choose adverts, though many people wonder.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 019-ai-in-one-ordinary-day.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Adverts	advert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	online	online	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	expl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	proven	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	listen	listen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
23	adverts	advert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	wonder	wonder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **follow** | present | Adverts |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **search** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **watch** | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | online *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **prove** | present · passive |  | AI |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: clause=Theme |
| 5 | **listen** | present | phones |  |  |  |  | secretly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **talk** | to-infinitive | phones *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **choose** | to-infinitive | phones *not said here* | adverts |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advert=Theme |
| 8 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | many people |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×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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