--- title: A low mark on work you were proud of can feel unfair; feedback means… — I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the… · tree and pragmatics description: A low mark on work you were proud of can feel unfair; feedback means advice on what to improve, and asking for it helps. Who acts: you, low mark, feedback, asking. A sentence of the lesson «I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the bad mark» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/24-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark/17/) [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/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [I failed: the missed penalty, the lost…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/24-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark/) / 17 # I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the bad mark, sentence 17 A low mark on work you were proud of can feel unfair; feedback means advice on what to improve, and asking for it helps. **Who acts:** you, low mark, feedback, asking · **What happens:** be, feel, mean, improve, ask, help · **To what, where:** work, advice · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «I failed: the missed penalty, the lost race, the bad mark» of the reflection 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, low mark, feedback, asking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:024-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark.lesson:17 # text = A low mark on work you were proud of can feel unfair; feedback means advice on what to improve, and asking for it helps. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 024-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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 11 nsubj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 14 feedback feedback NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 16 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 on on SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 20 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 improve improve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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** | past | you | work *not said here* | | | | proud *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | can | a low mark on work | | | | | unfair *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **mean** | present | feedback | advice | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **improve** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | for feedback | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **help** | present | asking | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:reflection:024-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark.lesson:17`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [I failed: the missed penalty, the lost…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/24-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark/16/) - next →: [I failed: the missed penalty, the lost…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/24-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/24-i-failed-the-missed-penalty-the-lost-race-the-bad-mark/)