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Test 1 · Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback

Your mate goes, "Harsh is honest, so I'll just say it's trash." What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, Harsh, I, best answer · What happens: go, be, say · To what, where: trash · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 38 «Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback» of the arts course of Mova's primary school. 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

Sentence 1: Your mate goes, "Harsh is honest, so I'll just say it's trash."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 honest	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 honest	punct
6	Harsh	Harsh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 honest	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 honest	cop
8	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goes	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 say	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 say	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 say	aux
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 say	advmod
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 honest	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 trash	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 trash	cop
17	trash	trash	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 say	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 honest	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	Harsh					honest property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	future	I						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	mate	trash					tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: What is the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Honest feedback must always be rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feedback	amod
2	feedback	feedback	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rude	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 rude	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 rude	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 rude	cop
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	Honest feedback					always, rude property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Saying "trash" is the most specific feedback

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 feedback	csubj
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 trash	punct
3	trash	trash	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	obj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 trash	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 feedback	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 feedback	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 specific	advmod
8	specific	specific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feedback	amod
9	feedback	feedback	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		trash					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent trash=Topic
2	is a	present	Saying	the specific feedback					tree rules

Option 3

He is right, the harsher the better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 harsher	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 harsher	det
6	harsher	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 right	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 better	det
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 harsher	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Harsh and vague gives no useful information

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gives	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 vague	cc
3	vague	vague	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Harsh	conj
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 information	det
6	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 information	amod
7	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Harsh	no useful information					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent information=Theme

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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