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title: If a child asks "Will you be sad when I go?", the honest answer is n… — Who you are: being wrong and learning · tree and pragmatics
description: If a child asks "Will you be sad when I go?", the honest answer is no, not the way a person is; you can still say you were glad to help and wish them a good time outside. Who acts: child, you, honest answer. A sentence of the lesson «Who you are: being wrong and learning» of the ai course of Mova's 
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# Who you are: being wrong and learning, sentence 8

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If a child asks "Will you be sad when I go?", the honest answer is no, not the way a person is; you can still say you were glad to help and wish them a good time outside.

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**Who acts:** child, you, honest answer · **What happens:** ask, be, go, say, help, wish · **To what, where:** way, things · **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 (child, you, honest answer), 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:8
# text = If a child asks "Will you be sad when I go?", the honest answer is no, not the way a person is; you can still say you were glad to help and wish them a good time outside.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
6	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	19	discourse	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	still	still	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	parataxis	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	ccomp	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advcl
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	iobj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:obl:unmarked
44	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a child |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present | a child *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | present | the honest answer | the way |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | you |  |  |  | still |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | you |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **help** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **wish** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | things *= thing* |  | time |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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