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title: Ascertain the subjects that are most appropriate for compliments. — Compliments and respecting differences · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the subjects that are most appropriate for compliments. Exam question 4 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 4 · Compliments and respecting differences

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Ascertain the subjects that are most appropriate for compliments.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, subjects · **What happens:** ascertain, be · **To what, where:** subjects

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the subjects that are most appropriate for compliments.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	compliments	compliment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the subjects |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | the subjects |  |  |  |  | for compliments; appropriate *property* | tree rules |

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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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A person's height or skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:e4:o1:1
# text = A person's height or skin
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A person's wealth and possessions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:e4:o2:1
# text = A person's wealth and possessions
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A person's body or weight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:e4:o3:1
# text = A person's body or weight
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Things a person chooses, such as effort, kindness or drawings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:e4:o4:1
# text = Things a person chooses, such as effort, kindness or drawings
1	Things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	chooses	choose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	drawings	drawing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | present | a person | Things such effort and kindness or drawings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

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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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