Test 2 · ★ · Training a dog with rewards and patience

«Nan says you can't teach an old dog new tricks, so Rusty's 11, no point» Is Nan right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nan, you, point · What happens: say, not teach, be · To what, where: 11, old dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	_	3 says	punct
2	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 teach	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 teach	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 teach	advmod
7	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dog	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dog	amod
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teach	obj
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tricks	amod
12	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dog	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 11	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 11	advmod
15	Rusty	Rusty	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 11	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Rusty	case
17	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 says	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 right	punct
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 point	det
20	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 right	nsubj
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 point	punct
22	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 right	cop
23	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 right	compound
24	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	conj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Nan	Rusty's 11			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not teach speech: other in a quote	can	you		a old dog and new tricks		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient
3	is	present	no point			right property	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

No, old dogs can learn, but only how to bark louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 learn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 learn	punct
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dogs	amod
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 learn	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 learn	aux
6	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bark	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 bark	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 bark	advmod
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 bark	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 bark	mark
12	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 learn	conj
13	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 bark	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	can	old dogs						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bark	to-infinitive	old dogs not said here					loud property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, old dogs never learn anything new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 learn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dogs	amod
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 learn	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 learn	advmod
6	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 learn	obj
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 anything	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	present	old dogs	anything					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, old dogs can learn, and it keeps them happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 learn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 learn	punct
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dogs	amod
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 learn	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 learn	aux
6	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 keeps	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 keeps	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keeps	nsubj
10	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 learn	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keeps	obj
12	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	can	old dogs						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	present	it	dogs = dog				happy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

Yes, but only for cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 cats	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 cats	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 cats	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 cats	case
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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