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title: Counting letter by letter, slowly, beats guessing quickly, and you c… — Who you are: being wrong and learning · tree and pragmatics
description: Counting letter by letter, slowly, beats guessing quickly, and you can show each step. Who acts: Counting, you. A sentence of the lesson «Who you are: being wrong and learning» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Who you are: being wrong and learning, sentence 19

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Counting letter by letter, slowly, beats guessing quickly, and you can show each step.

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**Who acts:** Counting, you · **What happens:** count, beat, guess, show · **To what, where:** letter, step

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Who you are: being wrong and learning» 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 (Counting, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:029-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning.lesson:19
# text = Counting letter by letter, slowly, beats guessing quickly, and you can show each step.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 029-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning.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	Counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	_
2	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	beats	beat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	guessing	guess	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	obj	_	_
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	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** | gerund |  | letter |  |  |  | by letter | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme |
| 2 | **beat** | present | Counting |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **guess** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **show** | can | you | each step |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent step=Recipient |

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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:029-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning.lesson:19`.

**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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