Test 4 · ★ · Training a dog with rewards and patience

What would happen if you gave the treat five minutes after the dog sat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dog · What happens: happen, give, sit · To what, where: treat

This is test 4 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 gave	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 treat	det
8	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 minutes	nummod
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gave	obj
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 sat	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dog	det
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gave	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give a condition, not said to happen	past	you	the treat	minute	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treat=Theme
3	sit	past	the dog			vn assuming_position-50 «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

The dog would learn to count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 count	mark
6	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	the dog						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	count	to-infinitive	the dog not said here						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

The dog would learn to sit faster next time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sit	mark
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learn	xcomp
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 sit	advmod
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sit	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	the dog						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sit	to-infinitive	the dog not said here				time	fast property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The dog would not know what the treat was for

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 know	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 treat	det
8	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 for	cop
10	for	for	ADP	_	6 what	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	would	the dog						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

The dog would learn to wait exactly five minutes for every treat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wait	mark
6	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learn	xcomp
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 five	advmod
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 minutes	nummod
9	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wait	obl:unmarked
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 treat	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 treat	det
12	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	the dog						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wait	to-infinitive	the dog not said here				minute	for every treat	vn exist-47.1 «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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