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title: Some experts worry that very powerful AI could become dangerous, oth… — The future: hopes · tree and pragmatics
description: Some experts worry that very powerful AI could become dangerous, others think that is far off, and many people are working on making AI safe. Who acts: experts, powerful AI, others, that. A sentence of the lesson «The future: hopes» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# The future: hopes, sentence 8

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Some experts worry that very powerful AI could become dangerous, others think that is far off, and many people are working on making AI safe.

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**Who acts:** experts, powerful AI, others, that, many people · **What happens:** worry, become, think, be, work, make · **To what, where:** AI · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The future: hopes» 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 (experts, powerful AI, others, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:024-future-hopes.lesson:8
# text = Some experts worry that very powerful AI could become dangerous, others think that is far off, and many people are working on making AI safe.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 024-future-hopes.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	experts	expert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	worry	worry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	_	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	off	off	ADV	RB	_	13	ccomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
24	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	_	25	obj	_	_
27	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **worry** | present | some experts |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **become** | could | powerful AI |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | far, off *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** | present · progressive | many people |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | gerund | many people *not said here* | AI |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ai=Product |

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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:024-future-hopes.lesson:8`.

**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): R7-rel-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/).

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