--- title: Feedback is what people tell you about your work so you can make it… — Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback · tree and pragmatics description: Feedback is what people tell you about your work so you can make it better, and the useful kind names one thing that works and one clear thing to improve. Who acts: Feedback, people, you, useful kind. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Feedback, people, you, useful kind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:038-praise-and-criticism-giving-and-taking-feedback.lesson:0 # text = Feedback is what people tell you about your work so you can make it better, and the useful kind names one thing that works and one clear thing to improve. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 038-praise-and-criticism-giving-and-taking-feedback.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Feedback feedback NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 so so SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 names name VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 28 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 improve improve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Feedback | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | people | | you | | | about your work | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about work=Topic | | 3 | **make** | can | you | Feedback | | | | good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | | 4 | **name** | present | the useful kind | one thing and one clear thing | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 5 | **work** | present | one thing and one clear thing | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **improve** | to-infinitive | the useful kind *not said here* | one clear thing *not said here* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **work** | | your | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:0`. **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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