--- title: Used well, AI can be a patient tutor: explaining fractions a new way… — The essay the teacher spotted · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: AI, patient tutor, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (AI, patient tutor, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ai:009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.lesson:5 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ai # lesson = 009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 2 well well ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 AI ai NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 patient patient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 tutor tutor NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 explaining explain VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 12 fractions fraction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 quizzing quiz VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 conj _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 19 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 conj _ _ 22 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nmod:unmarked 23 tables table NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 showing show VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 conj _ _ 27 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 28 det _ _ 28 spellings spelling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:acl:relcl 31 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | participle | AI *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | can | AI | a patient tutor | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | gerund | a patient tutor *not said here* | fractions | | | | a new way *obl:unmarked* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fraction=Topic | | 4 | **quiz** | gerund | a patient tutor *not said here* | your times tables | | | | | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent table=Location | | 5 | **show** | gerund | a patient tutor *not said here* | which spellings | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent spelling=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **get** | past | you | | | | | wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **learn** | can | you | spellings *= spelling* | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | 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. **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:009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.lesson:5`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [The essay the teacher spotted, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/4/) - next →: [The essay the teacher spotted, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/)