Test 3 · ★ · Compliments and respecting differences

Which compliment might make someone uncomfortable even if it is meant kindly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: compliment · What happens: make, mean · To what, where: someone, compliment

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 compliment	det
2	compliment	compliment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 make	obj
6	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 make	xcomp
7	even	even	ADV	_	11 meant	advmod
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 meant	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 meant	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 meant	aux:pass
11	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 make	advcl
12	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	11 meant	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	might	which compliment	someone				uncomfortable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset someone=Product
2	mean a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		compliment				kindly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

«You've lost loads of weight»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 weight	case
7	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loads	nmod
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose in a quote	present · perfect	You	loads of weight					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Eventuality

Option 2

«That was a really clever answer»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 answer	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 answer	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answer	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 answer	det
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 clever	advmod
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 answer	amod
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	That	a clever answer					tree rules

Option 3

«I love your story about the dragon»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 love	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 love	nsubj
3	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 story	nmod:poss
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 love	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 dragon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dragon	det
8	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	nmod
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 love	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love in a quote	present	I	your story				about the dragon	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

Option 4

«You were so kind to help Sam»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 kind	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 kind	advmod
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 help	mark
7	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 kind	xcomp
8	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 help	obj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	You					kind property	tree rules
2	help in a quote	to-infinitive	You not said here		Sam				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sam=Beneficiary

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