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title: This is why it can say "I understand how you feel" in a kind voice:… — How a language model learns: guessing the next w… · tree and pragmatics
description: This is why it can say "I understand how you feel" in a kind voice: kind people often write that. Who acts: This, chatbot, you, kind people. A sentence of the lesson «How a language model learns: guessing the next word» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# How a language model learns: guessing the next word, sentence 3

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This is why it can say "I understand how you feel" in a kind voice: kind people often write that.

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**Who acts:** This, chatbot, you, kind people · **What happens:** be, say, understand, feel, write · **To what, where:** that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How a language model learns: guessing the next word» 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 (This, chatbot, you, kind people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:002-guessing-the-next-word.lesson:3
# text = This is why it can say "I understand how you feel" in a kind voice: kind people often write that.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 002-guessing-the-next-word.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	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl:relcl	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	understand	understand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | This |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | chatbot |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **understand** *in a quote* | present | chatbot |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | in a kind voice | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in voice=Attribute |
| 5 | **write** | present | kind people | that |  |  |  | often *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |

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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:002-guessing-the-next-word.lesson:3`.

**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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