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title: Whether AI pictures are art is argued; when photography was new, som… — AI pictures and AI music, as reported · tree and pragmatics
description: Whether AI pictures are art is argued; when photography was new, some people also said it could not be real art. Who acts: AI pictures, photography, people. A sentence of the lesson «AI pictures and AI music, as reported» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# AI pictures and AI music, as reported, sentence 12

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Whether AI pictures are art is argued; when photography was new, some people also said it could not be real art.

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**Who acts:** AI pictures, photography, people · **What happens:** be, argue, say, not be · **To what, where:** art, real art · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «AI pictures and AI music, as reported» of the arts 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 pictures, photography, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:036-ai-pictures-and-ai-music-as-reported.lesson:12
# text = Whether AI pictures are art is argued; when photography was new, some people also said it could not be real art.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 036-ai-pictures-and-ai-music-as-reported.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Definite=Def|PronType=Art
3	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	csubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	argued	argue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	photography	photography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 a** | present | AI pictures | art |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **is** | past | photography |  |  |  |  | new *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | some people |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | could | photography | real art |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:arts:036-ai-pictures-and-ai-music-as-reported.lesson:12`.

**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): 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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