Test 8 · ★ · Training a dog with rewards and patience

«why do zoo keepers click at the sea lion lol» What is the reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: zoo keepers · What happens: click, be · To what, where: reason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	6 click	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 click	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 click	aux
4	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keepers	compound
5	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 click	nsubj
6	click	click	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 lion	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lion	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lion	compound
10	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 click	obl
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	16 reason	discourse
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 lol	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 reason	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 reason	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reason	det
16	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 click	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 click	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	click in a quote	present · do-support	zoo keepers					at the sea lion	tree rules
2	is a	present		the reason					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

They are counting fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 counting	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 counting	aux
3	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 counting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present · progressive	They	fish					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The click marks good behaviour so health checks are calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 click	det
2	click	click	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marks	nsubj
3	marks	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 behaviour	amod
5	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marks	obj
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 calm	mark
7	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 checks	compound
8	checks	check	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 calm	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 calm	cop
10	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 marks	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	present	the click	good behaviour					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent behaviour=Destination
2	is	present	health checks					calm property	tree rules

Option 3

The click is a special sea lion word meaning thank you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 click	det
2	click	click	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meaning	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 meaning	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 meaning	det
5	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 meaning	amod
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	compound
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	compound
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meaning	compound
9	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 meaning	acl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 thank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the click	a special word meaning					tree rules
2	thank speech: thank	present	a special word meaning not said here		you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 4

It scares sharks away from the pool so the sea lion feels safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scares	nsubj
2	scares	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scares	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 scares	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 pool	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pool	det
7	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 away	obl
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 feels	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lion	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lion	compound
11	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feels	nsubj
12	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 scares	advcl
13	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 feels	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	present	It	sharks				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus shark=Experiencer
2	feel	present	the sea lion					safe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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