Exam question 4 · Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities

State the appropriate response upon receiving a compliment.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: appropriate response · What happens: receive · To what, where: compliment

This is exam question 4 of lesson 298 «Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 response	nsubj
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	root	root
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	_	4 response	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	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 · ✓ the right answer

To say thank you and leave it there

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	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 thank	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 leave	cc
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thank	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 leave	obj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	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	infinitive		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	leave	infinitive	it		there	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

To boast of one's further achievements

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	of	of	ADP	_	7 achievements	case
4	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 achievements	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 one	case
6	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 achievements	amod
7	achievements	achievement	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 boast	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boast speech: other	to-infinitive						of one's further achievements	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	achieve		one						nom achievement «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

To insist that it is untrue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 insist	mark
2	insist	insist	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 untrue	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 untrue	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 untrue	cop
6	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 insist	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	insist speech: other	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					untrue property	tree rules

Option 4

To demand a further compliment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 demand	mark
2	demand	demand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 compliment	det
4	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 compliment	amod
5	compliment	compliment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 demand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	to-infinitive		a further compliment					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme compliment=Precondition

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