Exam question 4 · Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback

Ascertain the conduct most appropriate upon receipt of feedback which one has requested.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, request, receipt · To what, where: conduct, one, feedback

This is exam question 4 of lesson 38 «Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 conduct	det
3	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 appropriate	advmod
5	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 conduct	amod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 receipt	case
7	receipt	receipt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appropriate	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 feedback	case
9	feedback	feedback	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 receipt	nmod
10	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 requested	nsubj:pass
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 requested	aux
13	requested	request	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 receipt	acl:relcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the conduct	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Topic
2	request	present · perfect · passive		which one	vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient
3	receipt			feedback	nom receipt «act transitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Solicitation of praise from persons who agree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Solicitation	solicitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 praise	case
3	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Solicitation	nmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 persons	case
5	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 praise	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 agree	nsubj
7	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 persons	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	persons						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	solicit			praise from persons					nom solicitation «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Immediate contradiction of every point raised

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 contradiction	amod
2	contradiction	contradiction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 point	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 point	det
5	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contradiction	nmod
6	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 contradiction	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	participle		Immediate contradiction of every point not said here					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Refusal to request feedback on any future occasion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 request	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 request	mark
3	request	request	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	feedback	feedback	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 request	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 occasion	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 occasion	det
7	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 occasion	amod
8	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 request	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	request	to-infinitive	Refusal	feedback		any future occasion			vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent feedback=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Attentive listening, thanks, and later consideration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Attentive	attentive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 listening	amod
2	listening	listening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thanks	punct
4	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 listening	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 consideration	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 consideration	cc
7	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 consideration	amod
8	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 listening	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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