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description: She is partly right: every big invention seemed strange at first, and people got used to it, but the wise ones still kept an eye on the risks. Who acts: AI, big invention, wise ones. A sentence of the lesson «The future: fears, rules and your part» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# The future: fears, rules and your part, sentence 1

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She is partly right: every big invention seemed strange at first, and people got used to it, but the wise ones still kept an eye on the risks.

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**Who acts:** AI, big invention, wise ones · **What happens:** be, seem, use, keep · **To what, where:** people, invention, eye, risks

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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 (AI, big invention, wise ones), 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:1
# text = She is partly right: every big invention seemed strange at first, and people got used to it, but the wise ones still kept an eye on the risks.
# 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): no change
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	invention	invention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	risks	risk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | AI |  |  |  |  | partly, right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | past | every big invention |  |  |  |  | strange *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | past · passive |  | people | invention |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **keep** | past | the wise ones | a eye |  | the risks | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on risk=Location |

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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:1`.

**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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