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title: It was reported that AI helped scientists find possible new antibiot… — In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's s… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was reported that AI helped scientists find possible new antibiotics (medicines that kill the germs called bacteria) by searching huge numbers of chemicals; real medicines must still be tested carefully. Who acts: AI, scientists, medicines, germs. A sentence of the lesson «In the news: jobs, art 
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# In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety, sentence 18

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It was reported that AI helped scientists find possible new antibiotics (medicines that kill the germs called bacteria) by searching huge numbers of chemicals; real medicines must still be tested carefully.

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**Who acts:** AI, scientists, medicines, germs · **What happens:** report, help, find, kill, call, search · **To what, where:** company, scientists, possible new antibiotics, germs, bacteria, huge numbers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety» 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 (AI, scientists, medicines, germs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:022-news-jobs-art-safety.lesson:18
# text = It was reported that AI helped scientists find possible new antibiotics (medicines that kill the germs called bacteria) by searching huge numbers of chemicals; real medicines must still be tested carefully.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 022-news-jobs-art-safety.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
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	_	6	mark	_	_
5	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
6	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
13	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	searching	search	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
23	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
30	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	still	still	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	tested	test	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
34	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **report** | past · passive |  | company |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **help** | past | AI | scientists |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent scientist=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | infinitive | scientists *not said here* | possible new antibiotics |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antibiotic=Topic |
| 4 | **kill** | present | medicines | the germs |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 5 | **call** | participle | the germs *not said here* | bacteria |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **search** | gerund | medicines *not said here* | huge numbers of chemicals |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent number=Location |
| 7 | **test** | must · passive |  | real medicines |  |  | still | carefully *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:022-news-jobs-art-safety.lesson:18`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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