Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback, sentence 11

Many marks on your work usually mean the teacher took it seriously; asking which mark matters most turns a scary page into a plan.

Who acts: Many marks, teacher, mark, asking, your · What happens: mean, take, ask, matter, turn, work · To what, where: work, scary page, plan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback» of the arts 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 (Many marks, teacher, mark, asking), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 marks	amod
2	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mean	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 work	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 work	nmod:poss
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marks	nmod
6	usually	usually	ADV	_	7 mean	advmod
7	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 teacher	det
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mean	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	obj
12	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	10 took	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 asking	punct
14	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 turns	csubj
15	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	16 mark	det
16	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 matters	nsubj
17	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 asking	ccomp
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 matters	advmod
19	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mean	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 page	det
21	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 page	amod
22	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 turns	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 plan	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 plan	det
25	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 turns	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Many marks on your work			usually property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	past	the teacher	work		seriously property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	gerund					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	matter	present	which mark				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
5	turn	present	asking	a scary page	a plan		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent page=Theme into plan=Trajectory
6	work		your				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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:arts:038-praise-and-criticism-giving-and-taking-feedback.lesson:11.

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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