I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the bad mark, sentence 17
A low mark on work you were proud of can feel unfair; feedback means advice on what to improve, and asking for it helps.
Who acts: you, low mark, feedback, asking · What happens: be, feel, mean, improve, ask, help · To what, where: work, advice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the bad mark» of the reflection 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 (you, low mark, feedback, asking), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mark | det |
| 2 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mark | amod |
| 3 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 work | case |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mark | nmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 proud | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 proud | cop |
| 8 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 work | acl:relcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 feel | case |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 feel | aux |
| 11 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feel | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 feel | punct |
| 14 | feedback | feedback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 means | nsubj |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 feel | parataxis |
| 16 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 means | obj |
| 17 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 20 improve | mark |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 improve | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 improve | mark |
| 20 | improve | improve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 means | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 helps | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 helps | cc |
| 23 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 helps | csubj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 asking | obl |
| 26 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 means | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | you | work not said here | proud property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | feel | can | a low mark on work | unfair property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | feedback | advice | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | improve not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent what=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | gerund | for feedback | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | help | present | asking | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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:reflection:024-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark.lesson:17.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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