--- title: It was reported that AI companies paid people to check and label ans… — In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, car… · tree and pragmatics description: It was reported that AI companies paid people to check and label answers, and that some of these workers saw upsetting material and were paid little. Who acts: AI companies, some. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (AI companies, some), 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:15 # text = It was reported that AI companies paid people to check and label answers, and that some of these workers saw upsetting material and were paid little. # 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): 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 _ 7 mark _ _ 5 AI AI PROPN NNP _ 6 compound _ _ 6 companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 label label VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 13 answers answer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 20 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 22 upsetting upset VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 material material NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 27 little little ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | past · passive | | song | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **pay** | past | AI companies | people | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Asset | | 3 | **check** | to-infinitive | AI companies *not said here* | people *not said here* | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **label** | infinitive | AI companies *not said here* | answers | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent answer=Destination | | 5 | **see** | past | some | upsetting material | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer material=Stimulus | | 6 | **upset** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **pay** | past · passive | some *not said here* | | | | | little *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» | 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. **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:15`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [In the news: tricked bots, real discov…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/14/) - next →: [In the news: tricked bots, real discov…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/)