In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words, sentence 15

It was reported that AI companies paid people to check and label answers, and that some of these workers saw upsetting material and were paid little.

Who acts: AI companies, some · What happens: report, pay, check, label, see, upset · To what, where: song, people, answers, upsetting material

This is a sentence of the lesson «In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words» 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 companies, some), 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	_	7 paid	mark
5	AI	AI	PROPN	_	6 companies	compound
6	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 paid	nsubj
7	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reported	ccomp
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 paid	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 check	mark
10	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 people	acl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 label	cc
12	label	label	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 check	conj
13	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 label	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 saw	cc
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 saw	mark
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 saw	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 workers	case
19	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 workers	det
20	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 some	nmod
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 paid	conj
22	upsetting	upset	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 material	amod
23	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 paid	cc
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 paid	aux:pass
26	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 saw	conj
27	little	little	ADV	_	26 paid	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reported	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	report	past · passive		song		vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	pay	past	AI companies	people		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Asset
3	check	to-infinitive	AI companies not said here	people not said here		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	label	infinitive	AI companies not said here	answers		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent answer=Destination
5	see	past	some	upsetting material		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer material=Stimulus
6	upset	gerund				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	pay	past · passive	some not said here		little property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»

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:023-news-tricked-bots-discoveries.lesson:15.

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): 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.

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