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description: It was reported that some countries made new laws about AI; rules can be too slow or too strict, and people are still working them out. Who acts: countries, rules, people. 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 
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# In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety, sentence 7

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It was reported that some countries made new laws about AI; rules can be too slow or too strict, and people are still working them out.

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**Who acts:** countries, rules, people · **What happens:** report, make, be, work out · **To what, where:** AI, new laws, laws

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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 (countries, rules, people), 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:7
# text = It was reported that some countries made new laws about AI; rules can be too slow or too strict, and people are still working them out.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2
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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
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 |  | AI |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **make** | past | some countries | new laws |  |  |  | about AI | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset law=Product |
| 3 | **is** | can | rules |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | rules *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **work out** | present · progressive | people | laws *= law* |  |  | still |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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:7`.

**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. **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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