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title: Identify the appropriate response upon receiving a compliment. — Compliments and respecting differences · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the appropriate response upon receiving a compliment. Exam question 1 of lesson 226 «Compliments and respecting differences» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 1 · Compliments and respecting differences

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Identify the appropriate response upon receiving a compliment.

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**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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/226-compliments-and-respecting-differences/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:e1:1
# text = Identify the appropriate response upon receiving a compliment.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	compliment	compliment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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To return a larger compliment at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:e1:o1:1
# text = To return a larger compliment at once
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	compliment	compliment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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To say «Thank you»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:e1:o2:1
# text = To say «Thank you»
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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To disagree with the compliment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:e1:o3:1
# text = To disagree with the compliment
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	disagree	disagree	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	compliment	compliment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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To boast further of one's success

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:e1:o4:1
# text = To boast further of one's success
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	boast	boast	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	further	further	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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**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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