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title: Praise that is the same for everything stops feeling real; praise th… — Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback · tree and pragmatics
description: Praise that is the same for everything stops feeling real; praise that names something, like "the way you did the shadows", tells you what works. Who acts: Praise, you. A sentence of the lesson «Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback, sentence 8

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Praise that is the same for everything stops feeling real; praise that names something, like "the way you did the shadows", tells you what works.

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**Who acts:** Praise, you · **What happens:** be, stop, feel, name, do, tell · **To what, where:** something, shadows, 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 (Praise, you), 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:8
# text = Praise that is the same for everything stops feeling real; praise that names something, like "the way you did the shadows", tells you what works.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
8	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	xcomp	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	names	name	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
27	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	nsubj	_	_
30	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | present | Praise and praise |  |  |  |  | for everything; same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stop** | present | Praise and praise |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **feel** | gerund | Praise and praise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | real *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **name** | present | praise | something |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | past | you | the shadows |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Eventuality |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | praise *not said here* |  | you |  |  | like the way | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **work** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): R6-punct-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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