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title: Schools are making rules about AI, like rules about calculators: rea… — The essay the teacher spotted · tree and pragmatics
description: Schools are making rules about AI, like rules about calculators: read them, and when you are not sure, ask. Who acts: Schools, you. A sentence of the lesson «The essay the teacher spotted» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The essay the teacher spotted, sentence 7

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Schools are making rules about AI, like rules about calculators: read them, and when you are not sure, ask.

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**Who acts:** Schools, you · **What happens:** make, read, not be, ask · **To what, where:** rules, Schools

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The essay the teacher spotted» 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 (Schools, 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:7
# text = Schools are making rules about AI, like rules about calculators: read them, and when you are not sure, ask.
# 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
1	Schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	calculators	calculator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **make** | present · progressive | Schools | rules |  |  |  | about AI; like rules about calculators | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rule=Product |
| 2 | **read** | infinitive |  | Schools *= school* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.lesson:7`.

**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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