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title: Fearing mistakes so much that you stop trying would stop you learning. — Who you are: what you will do with what you lear… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fearing mistakes so much that you stop trying would stop you learning. Who acts: you, Fearing. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Who you are: what you will do with what you learned, sentence 24

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Fearing mistakes so much that you stop trying would stop you learning.

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**Who acts:** you, Fearing · **What happens:** fear, stop, try, learn · **To what, where:** mistakes, you

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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 (you, Fearing), 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:24
# text = Fearing mistakes so much that you stop trying would stop you learning.
# 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	Fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	_
2	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	xcomp	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **fear** | gerund |  | mistakes |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mistake=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stop** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **try** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **stop** | would | Fearing | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **learn** | gerund | Fearing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:24`.

**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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