Training a dog with rewards and patience, sentence 5

A reward given straight after an action makes that action more likely; this is called positive reinforcement, and it works with dogs, horses, dolphins and even fish.

Who acts: reward, action · What happens: give, make, call, work · To what, where: reward, action, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Training a dog with rewards and patience» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reward, action), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 reward	det
2	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 makes	nsubj
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 reward	acl
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	3 given	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 action	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 action	det
7	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obl
8	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 action	det
10	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 makes	obj
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 likely	advmod
12	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 makes	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 called	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 called	aux:pass
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 makes	conj
17	positive	positive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 reinforcement	amod
18	reinforcement	reinforcement	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 called	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 works	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 works	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 works	nsubj
22	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 makes	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 dogs	case
24	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 works	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 horses	punct
26	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 dogs	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dolphins	punct
28	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 makes	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fish	cc
30	even	even	ADV	_	31 fish	advmod
31	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 makes	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 makes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: warn
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=warn

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle		a reward not said here	after a action	straight property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	make	present	a reward	that action		dolphins obl; likely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset action=Product
3	call	present · passive		this			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	work	present	action			with dogs and horses	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dog=Co-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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience.lesson:5.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the release 0.4.

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