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title: State the appropriate response upon receiving a compliment. — Compliments, respecting differences an… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the appropriate response upon receiving a compliment. Exam question 4 of lesson 298 «Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities» 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 right.
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# Exam question 4 · Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities

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State the appropriate response upon receiving a compliment.

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities:e4:1
# text = State the appropriate response upon receiving a compliment.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
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	0	root	_	_
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	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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To say thank you and leave it there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities:e4:o1:1
# text = To say thank you and leave it there
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
```

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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* | 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 {#o2}

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To boast of one's further achievements

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities:e4:o2:1
# text = To boast of one's further achievements
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	boast	boast	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	achievements	achievement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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To insist that it is untrue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities:e4:o3:1
# text = To insist that it is untrue
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	insist	insist	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	untrue	untrue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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To demand a further compliment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities:e4:o4:1
# text = To demand a further compliment
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	demand	demand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	compliment	compliment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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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**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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