--- title: Useful feedback is kind, specific and helpful: it names something th… — Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback · tree and pragmatics description: Useful feedback is kind, specific and helpful: it names something that works and one clear thing to improve. Who acts: Useful feedback, Feedback. 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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 (Useful feedback, Feedback), 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:5 # text = Useful feedback is kind, specific and helpful: it names something that works and one clear thing 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): no change 1 Useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 feedback feedback NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 specific specific ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 helpful helpful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 names name VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 17 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 improve improve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl _ _ 21 . . 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** | present | Useful feedback | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Useful feedback *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Useful feedback *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **name** | present | Feedback | something | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 5 | **work** | present | | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **improve** | to-infinitive | Feedback *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:5`. **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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