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title: When someone says you can't learn, calmly showing your progress work… — Who you are: being wrong and learning · tree and pragmatics
description: When someone says you can't learn, calmly showing your progress works better than arguing, and people may still disagree. Who acts: someone, you, people, your. 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 
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# Who you are: being wrong and learning, sentence 21

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When someone says you can't learn, calmly showing your progress works better than arguing, and people may still disagree.

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**Who acts:** someone, you, people, your · **What happens:** say, not learn, show, work, argue, disagree · **To what, where:** progress · **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 (someone, you, people, your), 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:21
# text = When someone says you can't learn, calmly showing your progress works better than arguing, and people may still disagree.
# 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): no change
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	nsubj	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	arguing	argue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	disagree	disagree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **learn** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **show** | gerund |  | your progress |  |  |  | calmly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent progress=Recipient |
| 4 | **work** | present |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **disagree** | may | people |  |  |  | still |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **progress** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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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