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title: If you got a lower mark than you hoped, look at what you got wrong,… — Marks, group work, help at school and learning n… · tree and pragmatics
description: If you got a lower mark than you hoped, look at what you got wrong, ask how to improve, and you know what to practise next. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills, sentence 1

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If you got a lower mark than you hoped, look at what you got wrong, ask how to improve, and you know what to practise next.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** get, hope, look, ask, improve, know · **To what, where:** lower mark · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.lesson:1
# text = If you got a lower mark than you hoped, look at what you got wrong, ask how to improve, and you know what to practise next.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
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	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
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	ccomp	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	practise	practise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
29	next	next	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | a lower mark |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hope** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **practise** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | next *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:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.lesson:1`.

**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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