Test 11 · ★ · Training a dog with rewards and patience

«our dog barks at umbrellas like they're monsters» What might have helped when he was a puppy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog, umbrellas · What happens: bark, be, help · To what, where: monsters, puppy

This is test 11 · ★ 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 barks	punct
2	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dog	nmod:poss
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 barks	nsubj
4	barks	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 umbrellas	case
6	umbrellas	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 barks	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 monsters	case
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 monsters	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 monsters	cop
10	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 umbrellas	nmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 monsters	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 helped	obj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 helped	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 helped	aux
15	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 monsters	acl:relcl
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 puppy	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 puppy	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 puppy	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 puppy	det
20	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 helped	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 barks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bark in a quote	present	our dog		at umbrellas	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at umbrella=Stimulus
2	is in a quote	present	umbrellas = umbrella		like monsters	tree rules
3	help	might · perfect		monsters		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary
4	is a	past	dog	a puppy		tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Meeting umbrellas and many other things calmly when young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 umbrellas	compound
2	umbrellas	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 things	cc
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 umbrellas	conj
7	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	9 young	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 young	advmod
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 umbrellas	advcl

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

Option 2

Never seeing anything new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 seeing	advmod
2	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 seeing	obj
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 anything	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	gerund		anything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 3

Being shouted at near umbrellas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 shouted	aux:pass
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 umbrellas	case
4	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 umbrellas	amod
5	umbrellas	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund · passive				near umbrellas			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»

Option 4

Being kept inside all year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kept	aux:pass
2	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	inside	inside	ADP	_	5 year	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund · passive					year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»

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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