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title: Learn a skill first, then use tools to check it, the way you use a c… — Using AI to learn, not to copy · tree and pragmatics
description: Learn a skill first, then use tools to check it, the way you use a calculator. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Using AI to learn, not to copy» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Using AI to learn, not to copy, sentence 9

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Learn a skill first, then use tools to check it, the way you use a calculator.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** learn, use, check · **To what, where:** skill, tools, calculator

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Using AI to learn, not to copy» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:010-using-ai-to-learn-not-to-copy.lesson:9
# text = Learn a skill first, then use tools to check it, the way you use a calculator.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 010-using-ai-to-learn-not-to-copy.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Learn	learn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	calculator	calculator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | imperative | you *not said here* | a skill |  |  |  | first *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Topic |
| 2 | **use** | infinitive | you *not said here* | tools |  |  | then |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Patient |
| 3 | **check** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | skill |  |  |  | the way *obl:unmarked* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | present | you | a calculator |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calculator=Patient |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:010-using-ai-to-learn-not-to-copy.lesson:9`.

**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): no change. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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