The essay the teacher spotted, sentence 5
Used well, AI can be a patient tutor: explaining fractions a new way, quizzing your 7 and 8 times tables, or showing which spellings you got wrong so you can learn them.
Who acts: AI, patient tutor, you · What happens: use, be, explain, quiz, show, get · To what, where: patient tutor, fractions, times tables, spellings · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The essay the teacher spotted» 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, patient tutor, you), 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 | Used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 tutor | advcl |
| 2 | well | well | ADV | _ | 1 Used | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Used | punct |
| 4 | AI | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tutor | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 tutor | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tutor | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tutor | det |
| 8 | patient | patient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tutor | amod |
| 9 | tutor | tutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 explaining | punct |
| 11 | explaining | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 tutor | acl |
| 12 | fractions | fraction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 explaining | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 explaining | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 quizzing | punct |
| 17 | quizzing | quiz | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 explaining | conj |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 tables | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 times | nummod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 8 | cc |
| 21 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 7 | conj |
| 22 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 tables | compound |
| 23 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 quizzing | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 showing | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 showing | cc |
| 26 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 explaining | conj |
| 27 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 28 spellings | det |
| 28 | spellings | spelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 showing | obj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 got | nsubj |
| 30 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 showing | ccomp |
| 31 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 got | xcomp |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 learn | advmod |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 learn | nsubj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 learn | aux |
| 35 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 showing | advcl |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 learn | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tutor | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | AI not said here | well property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | can | AI | a patient tutor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | gerund | a patient tutor not said here | fractions | a new way obl:unmarked | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fraction=Topic | |||
| 4 | quiz | gerund | a patient tutor not said here | your times tables | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent table=Location | ||||
| 5 | show | gerund | a patient tutor not said here | which spellings | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent spelling=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | get | past | you | wrong property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | learn | can | you | spellings = spelling | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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:009-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted.lesson:5.
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.
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