Test 1 · ★ · Training a dog with rewards and patience

«stupid mutt pulls like a train, yank him back harder» What works better?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stupid mutt · What happens: pull, yank, work · To what, where: mutt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 195 «Training a dog with rewards and patience» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 pulls	punct
2	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mutt	amod
3	mutt	mutt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulls	nsubj
4	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 train	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 train	det
7	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulls	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 yank	punct
9	yank	yank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pulls	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 yank	obj
11	back	back	ADV	_	12 harder	advmod
12	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 yank	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 pulls	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 works	nsubj
15	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pulls	parataxis
16	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 works	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 pulls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pull in a quote	present	stupid mutt		like a train	tree rules
2	yank in a quote	infinitive	stupid mutt not said here	mutt	hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	work	present			well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Yank harder every time until he learns to stay right next to you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yank	yank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 harder	obl:unmarked
2	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 harder	obl:unmarked
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 learns	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 learns	nsubj
7	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 harder	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stay	mark
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 learns	xcomp
10	right	right	ADV	_	11 next	advmod
11	next	next	ADV	_	9 stay	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 next	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present	he						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stay	to-infinitive	he not said here					next property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stop when he pulls and reward him when the lead is loose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 pulls	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pulls	nsubj
4	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 reward	cc
6	reward	reward	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reward	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 loose	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lead	det
10	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 loose	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 loose	cop
12	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reward	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	pull	present	he			vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reward	infinitive	you not said here	him = he		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is	present	the lead		loose property	tree rules

Option 3

Never walk him again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 walk	advmod
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walk	obj
4	again	again	ADV	_	2 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not walk	imperative	you not said here	him = he			again		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent

Option 4

Let him pull wherever he likes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	6 likes	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 likes	nsubj
6	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pull	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	him = he		tree rules
2	pull	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	like	present	he		wherever property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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