Force response for side by side question, multiple rows and columns, only 1 response required

Hi there!
I have a side by side question here with four categories and multiple rows. So we have four dropdowns for each row but we don't require selections for all, neither for all columns nor for all rows. I am looking for a way to validate the response as long as a single selection is made.
The options of the dropdown are Neutral, Minor, Major, Critical, their recode values are 1, 2, 3, 4.
I have tried different approaches:
Category 1 (Recode) greater than or equal to 1
Or Category 2 (Recode) greater than or equal to 1, etc.

Neutral (Count) greater than or equal to 1
Or Minor (Count) greater than or equal to 1, etc., etc.
plus other approaches using all category-dropdown choice combinations (Category 1 - Neutral, Category 1 - Minor, etc.). None of them are working, whenever I test it by selecting an option from a single dropdown and then move to the next question I am prompted to make selections for all columns.
Does anyone know if there is a way to achieve this?
Thank you!