In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot, sentence 16
It was reported that a big company's image generator made historically wrong pictures, because its makers' rules were applied even where they did not fit; people criticised it, and the company paused the feature.
Who acts: image generator, pictures, people, company, makers · What happens: report, make, apply, not fit, criticise, pause · To what, where: rule, wrong pictures, rules, feature
This is a sentence of the lesson «In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot» 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 (image generator, pictures, people, company), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | aux:pass |
| 3 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 company | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 company | amod |
| 7 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 generator | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 company | case |
| 9 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 generator | compound |
| 10 | generator | generator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | ccomp |
| 12 | historically | historically | ADV | _ | 13 wrong | advmod |
| 13 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pictures | amod |
| 14 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 applied | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 applied | mark |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 makers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | makers | maker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rules | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 18 makers | case |
| 20 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 applied | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 applied | aux:pass |
| 22 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 made | advcl |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 where | advmod |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 fit | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fit | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 fit | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 fit | advmod |
| 28 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 applied | advcl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 criticised | punct |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 criticised | nsubj |
| 31 | criticised | criticise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 criticised | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 paused | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 criticised | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 company | det |
| 36 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 paused | nsubj |
| 37 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 feature | det |
| 39 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 paused | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past · passive | rule | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | make | past | a big company's image generator | wrong pictures | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset picture=Product | ||||
| 3 | apply | past · passive | rule's makers's rules | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not fit | past · do-support | pictures = picture | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | criticise | past | people | rule | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | pause | past | the company | the feature | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | rule | rule's makers | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: 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:020-news-court-cases-airline.lesson:16.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2. 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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