Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback, sentence 12
Mean comments online from strangers are not feedback; you can block, report and ignore them, and tell an adult if it gets bad.
Who acts: Mean comments, you, comment · What happens: not be, block, report, ignore, tell, get · To what, where: feedback, marks, adult · 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 (Mean comments, you, comment), 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 | Mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 comments | amod |
| 2 | comments | comment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 feedback | nsubj |
| 3 | online | online | ADV | _ | 2 comments | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 strangers | case |
| 5 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 comments | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 feedback | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 feedback | advmod |
| 8 | feedback | feedback | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 block | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 block | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 block | aux |
| 12 | block | block | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 feedback | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 report | punct |
| 14 | report | report | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 block | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ignore | cc |
| 16 | ignore | ignore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 block | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ignore | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tell | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tell | cc |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 block | conj |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 adult | det |
| 22 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tell | obj |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 gets | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gets | nsubj |
| 25 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 tell | advcl |
| 26 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gets | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 feedback | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Mean comments from strangers | feedback | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | block | can | you | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 3 | report | infinitive | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ignore | infinitive | you not said here | marks = mark | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | get a condition, not said to happen | present | comment | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:12.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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