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title: Critics write reviews with reasons; you can read their reasons and s… — Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback · tree and pragmatics
description: Critics write reviews with reasons; you can read their reasons and still disagree, as taste is personal. Who acts: Critics, you, taste. 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 
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# Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback, sentence 15

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Critics write reviews with reasons; you can read their reasons and still disagree, as taste is personal.

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**Who acts:** Critics, you, taste · **What happens:** write, read, disagree, be · **To what, where:** reviews, reasons

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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 (Critics, you, taste), 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:15
# text = Critics write reviews with reasons; you can read their reasons and still disagree, as taste is personal.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Critics	critic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	reviews	review	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	disagree	disagree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **write** | present | Critics | reviews |  |  |  | with reasons | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent review=Theme |
| 2 | **read** | can | you | Critics's reasons |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic |
| 3 | **disagree** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | taste |  |  |  |  | personal *property* | 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:15`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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