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title: Artists and writers asked whether it is fair that AI learned from th… — In the news: deepfakes, fake robocalls and histo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Artists and writers asked whether it is fair that AI learned from their work without asking, and courts are still deciding. Who acts: Artists, AI, courts. A sentence of the lesson «In the news: deepfakes, fake robocalls and history gone wrong» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# In the news: deepfakes, fake robocalls and history gone wrong, sentence 4

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Artists and writers asked whether it is fair that AI learned from their work without asking, and courts are still deciding.

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**Who acts:** Artists, AI, courts · **What happens:** ask, be, learn, decide, work · **To what, where:** work · **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 (Artists, AI, 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:4
# text = Artists and writers asked whether it is fair that AI learned from their work without asking, and courts are still deciding.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:_
11	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	deciding	decide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Artists and writers |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **learn** | past | AI |  |  | artists's work |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from work=Source |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | AI *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **decide** | present · progressive | courts |  |  |  | still |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **work** |  | artists *= artist* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:4`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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