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title: Governments in some countries have started writing laws about how AI… — In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Governments in some countries have started writing laws about how AI may be used. A sentence of the lesson «In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety, sentence 6

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Governments in some countries have started writing laws about how AI may be used.

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**What happens:** start, write, use · **To what, where:** Governments, laws, AI

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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: 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:6
# text = Governments in some countries have started writing laws about how AI may be used.
# 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): no change
1	Governments	government	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	writing	write	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **start** | present · perfect · passive |  | Governments in some countries |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | gerund |  | laws |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | may · passive |  | AI |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:022-news-jobs-art-safety.lesson:6`.

**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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