Test 10 · ★ · Compliments and respecting differences

teacher said my drawing was amazing, i said nah its rubbish. was that ok

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, drawing, i, that, my · What happens: say, be, draw · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 226 «Compliments and respecting differences» of the everyday 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 drawing	nmod:poss
4	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 amazing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 amazing	cop
6	amazing	amazing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	12 rubbish	discourse
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 rubbish	nmod:poss
12	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ok	cop
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 ok	nsubj
16	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	teacher		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	my drawing	amazing property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	i		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	that	ok property	tree rules
5	draw		my		nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, always argue with praise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 argue	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 argue	advmod
4	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 praise	case
6	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 argue	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	imperative	you not said here					with praise; always property	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with praise=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, just say thank you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 thank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	thank speech: thank	infinitive	you not said here		you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 3

No, you should say yours is the best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 best	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 best	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 best	det
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	yours					good property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, saying no is polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 polite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 polite	csubj
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 saying	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 polite	cop
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		no					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic
2	is	present	saying					polite property	tree rules

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