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title: Mean comments online from strangers are not feedback; you can block,… — Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback · tree and pragmatics
description: Mean comments online from strangers are not feedback; you can block, report and ignore them, and tell an adult if it gets bad. Who acts: Mean comments, you, comment. A sentence of the lesson «Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback, sentence 12

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Mean comments online from strangers are not feedback; you can block, report and ignore them, and tell an adult if it gets bad.

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**Who acts:** Mean comments, you, comment · **What happens:** not be, block, report, ignore, tell, get · **To what, where:** feedback, marks, adult · **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 (Mean comments, you, comment), 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:12
# text = Mean comments online from strangers are not feedback; you can block, report and ignore them, and tell an adult if it gets bad.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	comments	comment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	online	online	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	feedback	feedback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	block	block	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	report	report	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **not** **is a** | present | Mean comments from strangers | feedback |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **block** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **report** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ignore** | infinitive | you *not said here* | marks *= mark* |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 6 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | comment |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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): R3-conj-first ×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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