Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check, sentence 27
Praise for every answer, right or wrong, teaches nothing; good feedback says what was right and gently fixes what was wrong.
Who acts: Praise, good feedback · What happens: teach, say, be, fix · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» of the english 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 (Praise, good 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 | Praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 teaches | nsubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 answer | case |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 answer | det |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Praise | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wrong | punct |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 answer | amod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 wrong | cc |
| 8 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 right | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 teaches | punct |
| 10 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 teaches | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feedback | amod |
| 14 | feedback | feedback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 says | nsubj |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 teaches | conj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 right | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 right | cop |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 says | ccomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fixes | cc |
| 20 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 21 fixes | advmod |
| 21 | fixes | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 says | conj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 wrong | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wrong | cop |
| 24 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fixes | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 teaches | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present | Praise for every answer | nothing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | good feedback | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | right property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fix | present | good feedback not said here | gently property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | wrong property | tree rules |
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:english:002-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check.lesson:27.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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