What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people, sentence 3
When your phone suggests "time" after you type "Once upon a", it is not reading your mind; it is betting on the most usual next word.
Who acts: phone, you, your · What happens: suggest, type, not read, bet, mind · To what, where: mind
This is a sentence of the lesson «What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people» 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 (phone, you, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 suggests | mark |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 phone | nmod:poss |
| 3 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suggests | nsubj |
| 4 | suggests | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suggests | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 type | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 type | nsubj |
| 10 | type | type | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 suggests | advcl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Once | punct |
| 12 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 type | advmod |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 a | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Once | obl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Once | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reading | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 reading | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 reading | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 reading | advmod |
| 20 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 suggests | parataxis |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mind | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reading | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 betting | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 betting | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 betting | aux |
| 26 | betting | bet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 reading | parataxis |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 word | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 word | det |
| 29 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 30 usual | advmod |
| 30 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 word | amod |
| 31 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 word | amod |
| 32 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 betting | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 reading | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | present | your phone | time | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | type | present | you | once property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not read | present · progressive | phone | your mind | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bet | present · progressive | phone | on the usual next word | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on word=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mind | your | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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, 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:001-what-is-ai.lesson:3.
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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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.
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