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title: Grandma says AI is like the telephone: scary at first, then normal. — The future: fears, rules and your part · tree and pragmatics
description: Grandma says AI is like the telephone: scary at first, then normal. Who acts: Grandma, AI. A sentence of the lesson «The future: fears, rules and your part» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The future: fears, rules and your part, sentence 0

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Grandma says AI is like the telephone: scary at first, then normal.

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**Who acts:** Grandma, AI · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The future: fears, rules and your part» 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 (Grandma, AI), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:025-future-fears-rules.lesson:0
# text = Grandma says AI is like the telephone: scary at first, then normal.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 025-future-fears-rules.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	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	telephone	telephone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Grandma |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | AI |  |  |  |  | like the telephone | tree rules |

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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:025-future-fears-rules.lesson:0`.

**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/).

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