Test 6 · ★ · Training a dog with rewards and patience

«Mum says sit, Dad says sit down, I say bum on floor. why's he not getting it» What is the problem?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, Dad · What happens: say, sit down, not get, be · To what, where: sit, bum, floor, problem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sit	sit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
6	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	acl:relcl
8	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	ccomp
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 sit	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
13	bum	bum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 floor	case
15	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 getting	advmod
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 getting	aux
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 getting	nsubj
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 getting	advmod
21	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 says	ccomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 getting	obj
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 getting	punct
24	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 problem	obj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 problem	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 problem	det
27	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 getting	conj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Mum	sit		tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Dad	sit not said here		tree rules
3	sit down in a quote	infinitive				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Mum	bum	floor	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bum=Topic
5	not get in a quote	present · progressive	Dad	bum		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	is a	present	Dad not said here	the problem		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

Bum on floor is too short for a dog to understand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bum	bum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 short	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 floor	case
3	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bum	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 short	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 short	advmod
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 dog	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 short	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 understand	mark
11	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 short	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bum on floor					for a dog; short property	tree rules
2	understand	to-infinitive	Bum on floor not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

The dog cannot hear

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 hear	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hear	advmod
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	can	the dog						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

The dog is too stupid to learn any words

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 stupid	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stupid	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 stupid	advmod
5	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 learn	mark
7	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stupid	advcl
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 words	det
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the dog					stupid property	tree rules
2	learn	to-infinitive	the dog not said here	any words					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The dog needs one word that everyone uses

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	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 word	nummod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 uses	obj
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 uses	nsubj
8	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	the dog	one word					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot word=Theme
2	use	present	everyone	one word					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

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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