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description: Small models use far less energy than very big ones, which is one reason small models are worth making. Who acts: Small models, big ones. A sentence of the lesson «Who you are: honest about being an AI» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Who you are: honest about being an AI, sentence 12

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Small models use far less energy than very big ones, which is one reason small models are worth making.

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**Who acts:** Small models, big ones · **What happens:** use, be, making · **To what, where:** less energy, one reason

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Who you are: honest about being an AI» 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 (Small models, big ones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:028-who-you-are-honest-ai.lesson:12
# text = Small models use far less energy than very big ones, which is one reason small models are worth making.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 028-who-you-are-honest-ai.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	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	models	model	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	models	model	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl	_	_
20	making	making	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **use** | present | Small models | less energy |  |  |  | than big ones | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | big ones | one reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | small models | one reason *not said here* |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **making** | gerund | small models *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:028-who-you-are-honest-ai.lesson:12`.

**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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