--- title: Useful feedback says what was good and why, for example "Your facts… — Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell · tree and pragmatics description: Useful feedback says what was good and why, for example "Your facts about lava were really clear"; "That presentation ate" is Gen Z slang for "it was excellent". Who acts: Useful feedback, facts, presentation, ate. A sentence of the lesson «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» of the engli --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Spoken language: presenting and show-a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell/) / 16 # Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 16 Useful feedback says what was good and why, for example "Your facts about lava were really clear"; "That presentation ate" is Gen Z slang for "it was excellent". **Who acts:** Useful feedback, facts, presentation, ate · **What happens:** say, be, ate · **To what, where:** Gen Z slang · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» 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 (Useful feedback, facts, presentation, ate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:16 # text = Useful feedback says what was good and why, for example "Your facts about lava were really clear"; "That presentation ate" is Gen Z slang for "it was excellent". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 feedback feedback NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 13 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 lava lava NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 really really ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 23 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:WDT:PronType=Rel 24 presentation presentation NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:compound 25 ate ate NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 Gen gen NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 Z z NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 31 for for ADP IN _ 35 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:case 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 excellent excellent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 acl _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Useful feedback | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Your facts about lava | | | | | for example; clear *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **ate** *in a quote* | | that presentation | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | ate | Gen Z slang | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | past | ate | Gen Z slang *not said here* | | | | excellent *property* | tree rules | 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:english:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:16`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Spoken language: presenting and show-a…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell/15/) - next →: [Spoken language: presenting and show-a…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell/)