Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback, sentence 6
In the "Austin's Butterfly" story told by the teacher Ron Berger, a young boy drew a butterfly six times, and kind, specific feedback from classmates made each draft better.
Who acts: Butterfly story, young boy · What happens: tell, draw, make · To what, where: teacher, butterfly, Butterfly story, draft · 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 (Butterfly story, young boy), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Butterfly | punct |
| 4 | Austin | Austin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Butterfly | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Austin | case |
| 6 | Butterfly | butterfly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 story | compound |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Butterfly | punct |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drew | obl |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 story | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Ron | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 teacher | det |
| 12 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obl |
| 13 | Ron | Ron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obl:agent |
| 14 | Berger | Berger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ron | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drew | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 boy | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boy | amod |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drew | nsubj |
| 19 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 butterfly | det |
| 21 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drew | obj |
| 22 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 times | nummod |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 drew | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 feedback | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 feedback | cc |
| 26 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 feedback | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 kind | punct |
| 28 | specific | specific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 feedback | amod |
| 29 | feedback | feedback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 story | conj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 classmates | case |
| 31 | classmates | classmate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 feedback | nmod |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 drew | conj |
| 33 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 draft | det |
| 34 | draft | draft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | obj |
| 35 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 made | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 story | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | the Butterfly story and kind specific feedback from classmates not said here | the teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | a young boy | a butterfly | the Butterfly story and kind specific feedback from classmates | time | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent butterfly=Theme in story=Destination | ||
| 3 | make | past | a young boy not said here | each draft | good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset draft=Product |
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:6.
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): R5-strong ×6, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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