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title: Whether that counts as real understanding is something scientists st… — How a language model learns: guessing the next w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whether that counts as real understanding is something scientists still argue about, but it has never felt sad in a body. Who acts: that, scientists, understanding. 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 depen
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# How a language model learns: guessing the next word, sentence 4

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Whether that counts as real understanding is something scientists still argue about, but it has never felt sad in a body.

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**Who acts:** that, scientists, understanding · **What happens:** count, be, argue, not feel · **To what, where:** something

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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 (that, scientists, understanding), 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:4
# text = Whether that counts as real understanding is something scientists still argue about, but it has never felt sad in a body.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	csubj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
9	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
19	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **count** | present | that |  |  |  |  | as real understanding | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as understanding=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | scientists |  |  |  | still | about *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **feel** | present · perfect | understanding |  |  |  |  | in a body; sad *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in body=Attribute |

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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:4`.

**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. **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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