--- title: A clicker marks the exact moment an animal does the right thing and… — Training and enrichment: keeping zoo animals bus… · tree and pragmatics description: A clicker marks the exact moment an animal does the right thing and a food reward follows; training with rewards is called positive reinforcement, and it is used for dogs too, and even fish and crocodiles have learned to come to a target for a reward. Who acts: clicker, animal, food reward. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clicker, animal, food reward), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:112-training-and-enrichment.lesson:6 # text = A clicker marks the exact moment an animal does the right thing and a food reward follows; training with rewards is called positive reinforcement, and it is used for dogs too, and even fish and crocodiles have learned to come to a target for a reward. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 112-training-and-enrichment.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 clicker clicker NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 marks mark VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 reward reward NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 training training NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 rewards reward NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 24 positive positive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 reinforcement reinforcement NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 xcomp _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 33 too too ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 36 even even ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 crocodiles crocodile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ _ 40 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 target target NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 47 for for ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 reward reward NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mark** | present | a clicker | | | | moment | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **do** | present | a animal | the right thing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 3 | **follow** | present | a food reward | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | training with rewards | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 5 | **use** | present · passive | | animal | | | | for dogs | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for dog=Eventuality | | 6 | **learn** | present · perfect · passive | | fish and crocodiles | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **come** | to-infinitive | | | | a target | | for a reward | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to target=Initial\_Location | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:112-training-and-enrichment.lesson:6`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Training and enrichment: keeping zoo a…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/112-training-and-enrichment/5/) - next →: [Training and enrichment: keeping zoo a…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/112-training-and-enrichment/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/112-training-and-enrichment/)