--- title: The essay the teacher spotted — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The essay the teacher spotted», a lesson of the ai course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Connor hands in an essay about "the breathtaking vistas of the Mediterranean". --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/) / The essay the teacher spotted # The essay the teacher spotted Lesson 9 of the ai course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/0/) — Connor hands in an essay about "the breathtaking vistas of the Mediterranean". - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/1/) — He spent his holiday in rainy Skegness. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/2/) — His teacher knew straight away, because she knows how Connor writes and where he went. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/3/) — Homework is practice, like football training: if a bot does your keepy-uppies, you don't get better at keepy-uppies. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/4/) — Sam got full marks on bot homework and then failed the test. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/5/) — Used well, AI can be a patient tutor: explaining fractions a new way, quizzing your 7 and 8 times tables, or showing which spellings you got wrong so you can learn them. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/6/) — Used badly, it hands you invented "facts", like a volcano erupting in London, a prize that feels sick to hold, and a "brave" story that never happened to you. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/7/) — Schools are making rules about AI, like rules about calculators: read them, and when you are not sure, ask. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/8/) — Teachers know how their pupils usually write, so a sudden fancy style stands out. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/9/) — Chatbots have a typical style, with words like "furthermore" and "in conclusion", that teachers learn to notice. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/10/) — Using AI to understand an idea, then doing the work yourself, is like having a patient tutor. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/11/) — Homework is practice; copying it skips the learning and shows up in tests. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/12/) — Many schools now have rules for AI; written work usually must be the pupil's own. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/13/) — Using a bot to find spelling mistakes is useful if you learn from the corrections. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/14/) — Bots can hallucinate facts, so every fact in a project must be checked; no volcano has erupted in London. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/15/) — A prize won with someone else's work does not feel like winning; owning up is the brave thing. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/16/) — Personal writing must come from your own life, because only you know your own stories. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/17/) — A bot can be a good practice partner, for example quizzing times tables. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/18/) — Copying rules get stricter as you get older, and universities can punish AI copying. - ← previous: [Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop/) - next →: [Using AI to learn, not to copy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/10-using-ai-to-learn-not-to-copy/) - ↑ back to [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/)