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title: "Two stars and a wish", used in many UK schools, means two good thin… — Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback · tree and pragmatics
description: "Two stars and a wish", used in many UK schools, means two good things and one thing to improve; it is not a score out of five. Who acts: wish. A sentence of the lesson «Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback, sentence 10

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"Two stars and a wish", used in many UK schools, means two good things and one thing to improve; it is not a score out of five.

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**Who acts:** wish · **What happens:** use, mean, improve, not be · **To what, where:** wish, many UK schools, two good things, one thing, score, five

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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 (wish), 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:10
# text = "Two stars and a wish", used in many UK schools, means two good things and one thing to improve; it is not a score out of five.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	improve	improve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **use** | participle |  | a wish  Two stars *not said here* |  | many UK schools |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | a wish  Two stars | two good things and one thing |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 3 | **improve** | to-infinitive | a wish  Two stars *not said here* | one thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | wish | a score |  | five |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:10`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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