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description: It was reported that actors went on strike (stopped working as a protest) partly over worries about AI copying their faces and voices. Who acts: actors, worries. A sentence of the lesson «In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words, sentence 11

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It was reported that actors went on strike (stopped working as a protest) partly over worries about AI copying their faces and voices.

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**Who acts:** actors, worries · **What happens:** report, go, stop, work, copy · **To what, where:** AI, strike, faces

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This is a sentence of the lesson «In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words» 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 (actors, worries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:023-news-tricked-bots-discoveries.lesson:11
# text = It was reported that actors went on strike (stopped working as a protest) partly over worries about AI copying their faces and voices.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 023-news-tricked-bots-discoveries.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	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	actors	actor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
10	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
11	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	protest	protest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
16	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	worries	worry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
19	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	copying	copy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **report** | past · passive |  | AI |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | past | actors |  |  | strike |  | over worries | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over worry=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **stop** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as a protest | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as protest=Attribute |
| 5 | **copy** | gerund | worries *not said here* | actors's faces and voices |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=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:023-news-tricked-bots-discoveries.lesson:11`.

**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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