--- title: You can be kind and honest at once: "I love the colours, the horse's… — Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback · tree and pragmatics description: You can be kind and honest at once: "I love the colours, the horse's legs could be longer." Who acts: You, praise, legs. 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 pragmatics of every clause --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/38-praise-and-criticism-giving-and-taking-feedback/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Praise and criticism: giving and takin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/38-praise-and-criticism-giving-and-taking-feedback/) / 13 # Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback, sentence 13 You can be kind and honest at once: "I love the colours, the horse's legs could be longer." **Who acts:** You, praise, legs · **What happens:** be, love · **To what, where:** colours · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (You, praise, legs), 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:13 # text = You can be kind and honest at once: "I love the colours, the horse's legs could be longer." # 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 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 cop _ _ 4 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 6 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 22 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 parataxis _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 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** | can | You | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | You *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **love** *in a quote* | present | praise | the colours | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | could | the horse's legs | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | 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:13`. **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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