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title: "It's rubbish" only hurts, and "Amazing!" about everything soon mean… — Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback · tree and pragmatics
description: "It's rubbish" only hurts, and "Amazing!" about everything soon means nothing; "the faces are funny, but I can't read the words" actually helps, like a map that shows you where to go next. Who acts: kind, Amazing, faces, people. A sentence of the lesson «Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedb
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# Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback, sentence 1

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"It's rubbish" only hurts, and "Amazing!" about everything soon means nothing; "the faces are funny, but I can't read the words" actually helps, like a map that shows you where to go next.

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**Who acts:** kind, Amazing, faces, people, map · **What happens:** be, hurt, mean, not read, help, show · **To what, where:** rubbish, nothing, words, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (kind, Amazing, faces, people), 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:1
# text = "It's rubbish" only hurts, and "Amazing!" about everything soon means nothing; "the faces are funny, but I can't read the words" actually helps, like a map that shows you where to go next.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×3
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	csubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	nmod	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	csubj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
34	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	like	like	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	45	advmod	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	41	xcomp	_	_
46	next	next	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | kind | rubbish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hurt** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **mean** | present | Amazing about everything | nothing |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the faces |  |  |  |  | funny *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **read** *in a quote* | can | people | the words |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 6 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  | like a map; actually *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **show** | present | a map | you |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **go** | to-infinitive | a map *not said here* |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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 ×3. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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