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title: "I don't know", "I'm not sure" and "let me check" are honest words,… — Who you are: being wrong and learning · tree and pragmatics
description: "I don't know", "I'm not sure" and "let me check" are honest words, not weak ones. Who acts: I, me. 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 2

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"I don't know", "I'm not sure" and "let me check" are honest words, not weak ones.

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**Who acts:** I, me · **What happens:** not know, not be, let, check, be · **To what, where:** me, honest words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, me), 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:2
# text = "I don't know", "I'm not sure" and "let me check" are honest words, not weak ones.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	parataxis	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:appos
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	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 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **check** *in a quote* | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | honest words and weak ones |  |  |  |  | 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:029-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning.lesson:2`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-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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