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title: Nobody knows for sure whether AI will ever have feelings; scientists… — The future: fears, rules and your part · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody knows for sure whether AI will ever have feelings; scientists and philosophers argue about it, and today's chatbots imitate feelings in words. Who acts: Nobody, AI, scientists, chatbots. A sentence of the lesson «The future: fears, rules and your part» of the ai course of Mova's primary schoo
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# The future: fears, rules and your part, sentence 11

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Nobody knows for sure whether AI will ever have feelings; scientists and philosophers argue about it, and today's chatbots imitate feelings in words.

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**Who acts:** Nobody, AI, scientists, chatbots · **What happens:** know, have, argue, imitate · **To what, where:** feelings, words · **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 (Nobody, AI, scientists, chatbots), 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:11
# text = Nobody knows for sure whether AI will ever have feelings; scientists and philosophers argue about it, and today's chatbots imitate feelings in words.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
10	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	philosophers	philosopher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	chatbots	chatbot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	imitate	imitate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
24	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Nobody |  |  |  |  | for sure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | future | AI | feelings |  |  | ever |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | scientists and philosophers |  |  |  |  | about prediction | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 4 | **imitate** | present | today's chatbots | feelings |  | words |  |  | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme |

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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:11`.

**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 ×1, 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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