Exam question 1 · Compliments and respecting differences

Identify the appropriate response upon receiving a compliment.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, appropriate response · What happens: identify, receive · To what, where: appropriate response, compliment

This is exam question 1 of lesson 226 «Compliments and respecting differences» of the everyday 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 response	det
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 response	amod
4	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	6 receiving	mark
6	receiving	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 response	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 compliment	det
8	compliment	compliment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 receiving	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate response					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	receive	gerund	the appropriate response not said here	a compliment					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compliment=Theme

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

To return a larger compliment at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 return	mark
2	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 compliment	det
4	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 compliment	amod
5	compliment	compliment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 return	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	to-infinitive		a larger compliment					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compliment=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To say «Thank you»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 say	mark
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Thank	punct
4	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 Thank	obj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 Thank	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 3

To disagree with the compliment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 disagree	mark
2	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 compliment	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 compliment	det
5	compliment	compliment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disagree	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disagree	to-infinitive						with the compliment	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with compliment=Co-Agent

Option 4

To boast further of one's success

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 boast	mark
2	boast	boast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	further	further	ADV	_	2 boast	advmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 success	case
5	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 success	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 one	case
7	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 further	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boast speech: other	to-infinitive						further property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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