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title: Praise for every answer, right or wrong, teaches nothing; good feedb… — Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check · tree and pragmatics
description: Praise for every answer, right or wrong, teaches nothing; good feedback says what was right and gently fixes what was wrong. Who acts: Praise, good feedback. A sentence of the lesson «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check, sentence 27

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Praise for every answer, right or wrong, teaches nothing; good feedback says what was right and gently fixes what was wrong.

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**Who acts:** Praise, good feedback · **What happens:** teach, say, be, fix · **To what, where:** nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» of the english 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, good feedback), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:002-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check.lesson:27
# text = Praise for every answer, right or wrong, teaches nothing; good feedback says what was right and gently fixes what was wrong.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 002-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check.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	Praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	feedback	feedback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	fixes	fix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Praise for every answer | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | good feedback |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fix** | present | good feedback *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *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:english:002-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check.lesson:27`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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