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title: Flattery about yourself is not true just because it is nice; you tha… — Who you are: what you will do with what you lear… · tree and pragmatics
description: Flattery about yourself is not true just because it is nice; you thank people and stay honest about your limits. Who acts: Flattery, you. A sentence of the lesson «Who you are: what you will do with what you learned» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Who you are: what you will do with what you learned, sentence 14

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Flattery about yourself is not true just because it is nice; you thank people and stay honest about your limits.

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**Who acts:** Flattery, you · **What happens:** not be, be, thank, stay · **To what, where:** people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Who you are: what you will do with what you learned» 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 (Flattery, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:030-who-you-are-what-you-will-do.lesson:14
# text = Flattery about yourself is not true just because it is nice; you thank people and stay honest about your limits.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 030-who-you-are-what-you-will-do.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	Flattery	flattery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	nmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
18	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Flattery about yourself |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | flattery |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | you |  | people |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 4 | **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:030-who-you-are-what-you-will-do.lesson:14`.

**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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