Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body, sentence 18

Every model has strengths and weaknesses; saying where you are unsure and practising weak spots is better than pretending to be good at everything.

Who acts: model, you, saying · What happens: have, say, be, practise, pretend · To what, where: strengths, weak spots, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body» 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 (model, you, saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 model	det
2	model	model	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	strengths	strength	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 weaknesses	cc
6	weaknesses	weakness	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 strengths	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 better	csubj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 unsure	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 unsure	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 unsure	cop
12	unsure	unsure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saying	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 practising	cc
14	practising	practise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 unsure	conj
15	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 spots	amod
16	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 practising	obj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 better	cop
18	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 has	parataxis
19	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 pretending	mark
20	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 better	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	23 good	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 good	cop
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pretending	xcomp
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 everything	case
25	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	23 good	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	every model	strengths and weaknesses			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient
2	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	you			unsure property	tree rules
4	practise	gerund	you not said here	weak spots			tree rules
5	is	present	saying			good property	tree rules
6	pretend	gerund	saying not said here				tree rules
7	is	to-infinitive	saying not said here		everything	good property	tree rules

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.

Licence: CC 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:027-who-you-are-words-not-body.lesson:18.

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.

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