Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 16

Praise is most useful when it says what was good; then pick one thing to improve.

Who acts: Praise · What happens: be, say, pick, improve · To what, where: one thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer» 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), 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	4 useful	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 useful	cop
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 useful	advmod
4	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 says	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 useful	advcl
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 good	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 good	cop
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 says	ccomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 pick	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 pick	advmod
13	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 useful	parataxis
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 thing	nummod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pick	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 improve	mark
17	improve	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thing	acl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 useful	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Praise			useful property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Praise				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past				good property	tree rules
4	pick	infinitive		one thing	then		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
5	improve	to-infinitive		one thing 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:english:054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.lesson:16.

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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