Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback, sentence 5

Useful feedback is kind, specific and helpful: it names something that works and one clear thing to improve.

Who acts: Useful feedback, Feedback · What happens: be, name, work, improve · To what, where: something

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 (Useful feedback, Feedback), 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	Useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feedback	amod
2	feedback	feedback	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 specific	punct
6	specific	specific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kind	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 helpful	cc
8	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kind	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 names	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 names	nsubj
11	names	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	parataxis
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 names	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 works	nsubj
14	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 something	acl:relcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thing	cc
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 thing	nummod
17	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 something	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 improve	mark
20	improve	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thing	acl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Useful feedback		kind property	tree rules
2	be		Useful feedback not said here			tree rules
3	be		Useful feedback not said here			tree rules
4	name	present	Feedback	something		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
5	work	present				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	improve	to-infinitive	Feedback not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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: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.

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