Animacy in Story Time Logic

In story time logic, you typically elevate anything talking to animacy. Once something in a story starts speaking, it is typically elevated to human level animacy. In South Korea, there are schools that have robot like English teachers. They're very crude sort of basic programming for English teaching, but they interact with the kids and the kids might sort of see them as sort of something like human because, I mean, kids,. There's all sorts of speculations we can go into here.