--- title: A lower mark shows what to practise next; you look at what you got w… — Tests, exams and mistakes · tree and pragmatics description: A lower mark shows what to practise next; you look at what you got wrong and ask how to improve. Who acts: lower mark, you. A sentence of the lesson «Tests, exams and mistakes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/255-tests-exams-and-mistakes/11/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Tests, exams and mistakes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/255-tests-exams-and-mistakes/) / 11 # Tests, exams and mistakes, sentence 11 A lower mark shows what to practise next; you look at what you got wrong and ask how to improve. **Who acts:** lower mark, you · **What happens:** show, practise, look, get, ask, improve This is a sentence of the lesson «Tests, exams and mistakes» of the everyday 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 (lower mark, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes.lesson:11 # text = A lower mark shows what to practise next; you look at what you got wrong and ask how to improve. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 255-tests-exams-and-mistakes.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 amod _ _ 3 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 practise practise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 next next ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 obl _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 19 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 improve improve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 22 . . 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 | **show** | present | a lower mark | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **practise** | to-infinitive | a lower mark *not said here* | | | | | next *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **look** | present | you | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at what=Theme | | 4 | **get** | past | you | | | | | wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **improve** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *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:everyday:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes.lesson:11`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Tests, exams and mistakes, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/255-tests-exams-and-mistakes/10/) - next →: [Tests, exams and mistakes, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/255-tests-exams-and-mistakes/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/255-tests-exams-and-mistakes/)