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title: A lower mark than you hoped shows what to practise next, not how cle… — Marks, group work, help at school and learning n… · tree and pragmatics
description: A lower mark than you hoped shows what to practise next, not how clever you are for ever. Who acts: you, lower mark. 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 the pragmatics of eve
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# Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills, sentence 8

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A lower mark than you hoped shows what to practise next, not how clever you are for ever.

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**Who acts:** you, lower mark · **What happens:** hope, show, practise, not be · **To what, where:** lower mark

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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, lower mark), 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:8
# text = A lower mark than you hoped shows what to practise next, not how clever you are for ever.
# 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	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	7	nsubj	_	_
4	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	practise	practise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	next	next	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **hope** | past | you | a lower mark *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present | a lower mark |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **practise** | to-infinitive | a lower mark *not said here* |  |  |  |  | next *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | clever *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:8`.

**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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