Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback, sentence 2
Taking feedback is a skill too: listen to the end, say thanks, and decide later what to use, instead of answering every point with "yeah but".
Who acts: Taking · What happens: take, be, listen, say, decide, use · To what, where: feedback, skill, thanks, point · 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 (Taking), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 skill | csubj |
| 2 | feedback | feedback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 skill | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 skill | det |
| 5 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 skill | advmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 listen | punct |
| 8 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 skill | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 listen | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 listen | conj |
| 14 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 say | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 decide | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 decide | cc |
| 17 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | parataxis |
| 18 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 decide | advmod |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 use | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 use | mark |
| 21 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 decide | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 answering | punct |
| 23 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 25 answering | mark |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 instead | fixed |
| 25 | answering | answer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 decide | advcl |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 point | det |
| 27 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 answering | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 yeah | case |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 yeah | punct |
| 30 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 25 answering | obl |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 yeah | flat |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 yeah | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 skill | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | feedback | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feedback=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Taking | a skill | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | listen | infinitive | to the end | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to end=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | infinitive | thanks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic | |||||
| 5 | decide | infinitive | late property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | use not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | answer speech: assert | gerund | every point | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent point=Eventuality |
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:2.
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): 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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