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title: It was reported that some writers and newspapers took AI companies t… — In the news: deepfakes, fake robocalls and histo… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was reported that some writers and newspapers took AI companies to court over the use of their work, and courts are still deciding what is fair. Who acts: writers, courts. A sentence of the lesson «In the news: deepfakes, fake robocalls and history gone wrong» of the ai course of Mova's primary s
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# In the news: deepfakes, fake robocalls and history gone wrong, sentence 14

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It was reported that some writers and newspapers took AI companies to court over the use of their work, and courts are still deciding what is fair.

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**Who acts:** writers, courts · **What happens:** report, take, decide, be, use, work · **To what, where:** work, AI companies, use · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «In the news: deepfakes, fake robocalls and history gone wrong» 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 (writers, courts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:021-news-deepfakes-history.lesson:14
# text = It was reported that some writers and newspapers took AI companies to court over the use of their work, and courts are still deciding what is fair.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 021-news-deepfakes-history.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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
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	_	9	mark	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
8	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
10	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
11	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_
13	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
22	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	deciding	decide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	ccomp	_	_
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 | **report** | past · passive |  | work |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **take** | past | some writers and newspapers | AI companies |  | the use of writers's work |  | to court | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent company=Theme to court=Destination |
| 3 | **decide** | present · progressive | courts |  |  |  | still |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** |  |  | writers's work |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **work** |  | writers *= writer* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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:021-news-deepfakes-history.lesson:14`.

**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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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