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title: Not every comment is feedback: a stranger online writing "cringe" is… — Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback · tree and pragmatics
description: Not every comment is feedback: a stranger online writing "cringe" is not trying to help, so you can block, report and tell an adult, and listen to people who want you to improve. Who acts: comment, stranger, you, adult. A sentence of the lesson «Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback» of t
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# Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback, sentence 3

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Not every comment is feedback: a stranger online writing "cringe" is not trying to help, so you can block, report and tell an adult, and listen to people who want you to improve.

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**Who acts:** comment, stranger, you, adult, people · **What happens:** not be, not try, help, block, report, tell · **To what, where:** feedback, you · **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 (comment, stranger, you, adult), 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:3
# text = Not every comment is feedback: a stranger online writing "cringe" is not trying to help, so you can block, report and tell an adult, and listen to people who want you to improve.
# 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 ×2, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	comment	comment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	feedback	feedback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det
8	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound
9	online	online	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	cringe	cringe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	block	block	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	report	report	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc
27	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
32	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	improve	improve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | every comment | feedback |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **try** | present · progressive | a stranger |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a stranger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **block** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 5 | **report** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a adult |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **listen** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to people | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to people=Theme |
| 8 | **want** | present | people | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **improve** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:3`.

**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 ×2, R5-strong ×3, 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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