In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety, sentence 18
It was reported that AI helped scientists find possible new antibiotics (medicines that kill the germs called bacteria) by searching huge numbers of chemicals; real medicines must still be tested carefully.
Who acts: AI, scientists, medicines, germs · What happens: report, help, find, kill, call, search · To what, where: company, scientists, possible new antibiotics, germs, bacteria, huge numbers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety» 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 (AI, scientists, medicines, germs), 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 | _ | 6 helped | mark |
| 5 | AI | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 helped | nsubj |
| 6 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reported | ccomp |
| 7 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 helped | obj |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 helped | xcomp |
| 9 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 antibiotics | amod |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 antibiotics | amod |
| 11 | antibiotics | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 find | obj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 medicines | punct |
| 13 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 antibiotics | appos |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 kill | nsubj |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 medicines | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 germs | det |
| 17 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 kill | obj |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 germs | acl |
| 19 | bacteria | bacteria | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 bacteria | punct |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 searching | mark |
| 22 | searching | search | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 kill | advcl |
| 23 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 numbers | amod |
| 24 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 searching | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 chemicals | case |
| 26 | chemicals | chemical | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 numbers | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 medicines | punct |
| 28 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 medicines | amod |
| 29 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 tested | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 tested | aux |
| 31 | still | still | ADV | _ | 33 tested | advmod |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 tested | aux:pass |
| 33 | tested | test | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 reported | parataxis |
| 34 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 33 tested | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past · passive | company | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | help | past | AI | scientists | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent scientist=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | infinitive | scientists not said here | possible new antibiotics | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antibiotic=Topic | ||||
| 4 | kill | present | medicines | the germs | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | ||||
| 5 | call | participle | the germs not said here | bacteria | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | search | gerund | medicines not said here | huge numbers of chemicals | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent number=Location | ||||
| 7 | test | must · passive | real medicines | still | carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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:022-news-jobs-art-safety.lesson:18.
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.
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