--- title: It was reported that AI helped researchers read words in ancient scr… — In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, car… · tree and pragmatics description: It was reported that AI helped researchers read words in ancient scrolls burned by a volcanic eruption nearly 2000 years ago, by spotting ink patterns in scans. Who acts: AI, researchers. 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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, researchers), 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:5 # text = It was reported that AI helped researchers read words in ancient scrolls burned by a volcanic eruption nearly 2000 years ago, by spotting ink patterns in scans. # 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): R5-strong ×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 _ 6 mark _ _ 5 AI ai NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 researchers researcher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 scrolls scroll NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 burned burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 volcanic volcanic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 eruption eruption NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 2000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl:unmarked 21 ago ago ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 by by SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 spotting spot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 25 ink ink NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 patterns pattern NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 scans scan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | past · passive | | news | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **help** | past | AI | researchers | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent researcher=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **read** | infinitive | researchers *not said here* | words | | ancient scrolls | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 4 | **burn** | participle | | ancient scrolls *not said here* | | | | by a volcanic eruption; ago *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by eruption=Location | | 5 | **spot** | gerund | | ink patterns | | | | in scans | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pattern=Destination in scan=Theme | 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:5`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [In the news: tricked bots, real discov…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/4/) - next →: [In the news: tricked bots, real discov…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/)