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title: Writing helps you think, not only make words, so learning to write s… — The future: hopes · tree and pragmatics
description: Writing helps you think, not only make words, so learning to write still matters. Who acts: Writing, you. A sentence of the lesson «The future: hopes» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The future: hopes, sentence 15

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Writing helps you think, not only make words, so learning to write still matters.

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**Who acts:** Writing, you · **What happens:** help, think, not make, learn, write, matter · **To what, where:** you, words

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The future: hopes» 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 (Writing, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:024-future-hopes.lesson:15
# text = Writing helps you think, not only make words, so learning to write still matters.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 024-future-hopes.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **help** | present | Writing | you |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | words |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset word=Product |
| 4 | **learn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **write** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **matter** | present |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:024-future-hopes.lesson:15`.

**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): R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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