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Test 9 · Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback

Emma writes "critics are haters, period" ("period" means end of discussion). Which is fairer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Emma, critics, period · What happens: write, be, mean · To what, where: haters, end

This is test 9 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: Emma writes "critics are haters, period" ("period" means end of discussion).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Emma	Emma	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 writes	nsubj
2	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 haters	punct
4	critics	critic	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 haters	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 haters	cop
6	haters	hater	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 writes	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 period	punct
8	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 haters	conj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 haters	punct
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 means	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 period	punct
12	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 means	nsubj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 period	punct
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 writes	parataxis
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 means	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 discussion	case
17	discussion	discussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 end	nmod
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 means	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	Emma						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	critics	haters and period					tree rules
3	mean	present	period	end of discussion					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Topic

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: Which is fairer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 fairer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fairer	cop
3	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fairer	punct

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

The options

Option 1

She is wrong to like the film at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 like	mark
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wrong	csubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 film	det
7	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 like	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					wrong property	tree rules
2	like	to-infinitive		the film		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot film=Theme

Option 2

Taste in films is exactly the same for everyone, so critics must be wrong

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 same	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 films	case
3	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Taste	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 same	cop
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 same	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 everyone	case
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 same	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wrong	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 wrong	advmod
12	critics	critic	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wrong	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 wrong	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 wrong	cop
15	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 same	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Taste in films					for everyone; exactly, same property	tree rules
2	is	must	critics					wrong property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Critics give reasons, and she can disagree with reasons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Critics	critic	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	nsubj
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 disagree	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 disagree	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 disagree	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 disagree	aux
8	disagree	disagree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 give	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 reasons	case
10	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 disagree	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Critics	reasons					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	disagree	can	she					with reasons	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with reason=Co-Agent

Option 4

Critics are paid to hate every film

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Critics	critic	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paid	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	aux:pass
3	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hate	mark
5	hate	hate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 paid	xcomp
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 film	det
7	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present · passive		Critics					tree rules
2	hate	to-infinitive		every film					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer film=Stimulus

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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