--- title: A low mark is a map of what to practise next, not a measure of how c… — Tests, exams and mistakes · tree and pragmatics description: A low mark is a map of what to practise next, not a measure of how clever you are forever, and you never change a mark or forge a signature to hide it. Who acts: low mark, you. A sentence of the lesson «Tests, exams and mistakes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Tests, exams and mistakes, sentence 3 A low mark is a map of what to practise next, not a measure of how clever you are forever, and you never change a mark or forge a signature to hide it. **Who acts:** low mark, you · **What happens:** be, practise, not change, forge, hide · **To what, where:** map, mark, signature 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 (low 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:3 # text = A low mark is a map of what to practise next, not a measure of how clever you are forever, and you never change a mark or forge a signature to hide it. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nmod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 practise practise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 next next ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 measure measure NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 17 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 18 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:acl 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 21 forever forever ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 forge forge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 signature signature NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:acl 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 a** | present | a low mark | a map and a measure | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **practise** | to-infinitive | a low mark *not said here* | | | | | next *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | you | | | | | clever, forever *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **change** | present | you | a mark | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient | | 5 | **forge** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a signature | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signature=Product | | 6 | **hide** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | mark | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:3`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/255-tests-exams-and-mistakes/2/) - next →: [Tests, exams and mistakes, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/255-tests-exams-and-mistakes/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/255-tests-exams-and-mistakes/)