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title: «Nan says you can't teach an old dog new tricks, so Rusty's 11, no p… — Training a dog with rewards and patience · tree and pragmatics
description: «Nan says you can't teach an old dog new tricks, so Rusty's 11, no point» Is Nan right? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 195 «Training a dog with rewards and patience» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wr
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# Test 2 · ★ · Training a dog with rewards and patience

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«Nan says you can't teach an old dog new tricks, so Rusty's 11, no point» Is Nan right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Nan, you, point · **What happens:** say, not teach, be · **To what, where:** 11, old dog · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience:t2:1
# text = «Nan says you can't teach an old dog new tricks, so Rusty's 11, no point» Is Nan right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nan	Nan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	Rusty	Rusty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	Nan	Nan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Nan | Rusty's 11 |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | can | you |  | a old dog and new tricks |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | no point |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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No, old dogs can learn, but only how to bark louder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience:t2:o1:1
# text = No, old dogs can learn, but only how to bark louder
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	bark	bark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | can | old dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bark** | to-infinitive | old dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, old dogs never learn anything new

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience:t2:o2:1
# text = Yes, old dogs never learn anything new
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **learn** | present | old dogs | anything |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No, old dogs can learn, and it keeps them happy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience:t2:o3:1
# text = No, old dogs can learn, and it keeps them happy
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | can | old dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | present | it | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, but only for cats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience:t2:o4:1
# text = Yes, but only for cats
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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