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title: You learn far more by trying than by not trying. — Mistakes, asking for help and saying no · tree and pragmatics
description: You learn far more by trying than by not trying. Who acts: You. A sentence of the lesson «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mistakes, asking for help and saying no, sentence 5

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You learn far more by trying than by not trying.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** learn, try, not try · **To what, where:** more

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» of the everyday 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.lesson:5
# text = You learn far more by trying than by not trying.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.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	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	obj	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **learn** | present | You | more |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
| 2 | **try** | gerund | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **try** | gerund | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:everyday:099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.lesson:5`.

**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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