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title: Parents asked whether chatbots are safe for children, and it was rep… — In the news: deepfakes, fake robocalls and histo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Parents asked whether chatbots are safe for children, and it was reported that some companies added age checks and parental controls. Who acts: Parents, chatbots, companies. A sentence of the lesson «In the news: deepfakes, fake robocalls and history gone wrong» of the ai course of Mova's primary sc
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# In the news: deepfakes, fake robocalls and history gone wrong, sentence 5

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Parents asked whether chatbots are safe for children, and it was reported that some companies added age checks and parental controls.

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**Who acts:** Parents, chatbots, companies · **What happens:** ask, be, report, add · **To what, where:** AI, age checks · **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 (Parents, chatbots, companies), 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:5
# text = Parents asked whether chatbots are safe for children, and it was reported that some companies added age checks and parental controls.
# 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): no change
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	chatbots	chatbot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
18	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	checks	check	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	parental	parental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	controls	control	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | chatbots |  |  |  |  | for children; safe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **report** | past · passive |  | AI |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | some companies | age checks and parental controls |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent check=Patient |

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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:5`.

**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): no change. **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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