Test 3 · ★ · Training a dog with rewards and patience

«Max ran off for 20 mins then came back, I'm gonna give him a right telling off» What will Max learn from that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Max, 20 mins, I, right · What happens: run off, come back, give, tell off, learn · To what, where: right, Max, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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 ran	punct
2	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 ran	compound:prt
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 mins	case
6	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 mins	nummod
7	mins	minute	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	3 ran	obl
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 came	advmod
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mins	acl:relcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 give	nsubj
13	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 give	aux
14	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	15 give	dep
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ran	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	iobj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 right	det
18	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
19	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 right	acl
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 telling	compound:prt
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 telling	punct
22	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 learn	obj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 learn	aux
24	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 learn	nsubj
25	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 telling	ccomp
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 that	case
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 learn	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	run off in a quote	past	Max				minute	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back in a quote	past	20 mins not said here				then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give in a quote	present	I	a right	Max			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient right=Theme
4	tell off speech: assert in a quote	gerund	a right not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	learn	future	Max			that		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Topic from that=Source

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

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That coming back gets him into trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 coming	nsubj
2	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gets	advcl
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 coming	advmod
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gets	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 trouble	case
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	gerund	That						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	present		him = he		trouble			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3

That running off is bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 running	nsubj
2	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bad	csubj
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 running	compound:prt
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bad	cop
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	gerund	That						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	running					bad property	tree rules

Option 4

That he should come back faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 come	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	should	That					fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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