--- title: Taking feedback is a skill too: listen to the end, say thanks, and d… — Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback · tree and pragmatics description: Taking feedback is a skill too: listen to the end, say thanks, and decide later what to use, instead of answering every point with "yeah but". Who acts: Taking. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Taking), 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:2 # text = Taking feedback is a skill too: listen to the end, say thanks, and decide later what to use, instead of answering every point with "yeah but". # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 feedback feedback NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 listen listen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 decide decide VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 18 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 21 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:xcomp 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 25 mark _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 25 answering answer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 26 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 25 obl _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 flat _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | gerund | | feedback | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feedback=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | Taking | a skill | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **listen** | infinitive | | | | | to the end | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to end=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | thanks | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic | | 5 | **decide** | infinitive | | | | | | late *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **use** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 7 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund | | every point | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent point=Eventuality | 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:2`. **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): 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. 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