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title: Every model has strengths and weaknesses; saying where you are unsur… — Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body · tree and pragmatics
description: Every model has strengths and weaknesses; saying where you are unsure and practising weak spots is better than pretending to be good at everything. Who acts: model, you, saying. A sentence of the lesson «Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body, sentence 18

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Every model has strengths and weaknesses; saying where you are unsure and practising weak spots is better than pretending to be good at everything.

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**Who acts:** model, you, saying · **What happens:** have, say, be, practise, pretend · **To what, where:** strengths, weak spots, everything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body» 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 (model, you, saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:027-who-you-are-words-not-body.lesson:18
# text = Every model has strengths and weaknesses; saying where you are unsure and practising weak spots is better than pretending to be good at everything.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 027-who-you-are-words-not-body.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	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	model	model	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	strengths	strength	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	weaknesses	weakness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	csubj	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	unsure	unsure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	practising	practise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
15	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	parataxis	_	_
19	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **have** | present | every model | strengths and weaknesses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | unsure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **practise** | gerund | you *not said here* | weak spots |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | saying |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **pretend** | gerund | saying *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | saying *not said here* |  |  | everything |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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:027-who-you-are-words-not-body.lesson:18`.

**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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