07Book 03 · Chapter 07 of 07· 5 min · Fluent, and still pointing at the dog
The wrong neighbor
When “it” should be the cat and the mix lands on the dog, the sentence can still sound fine. The neighborhood was right. The house was wrong.
“The dog chased the cat until it barked.” Flip the last word to “meowed,” and the mix on “it” should walk toward the cat. If it stays on the dog, the reply can still sound like English. It just points at the wrong animal.
Same story as Sydney for a capital: right cluster, wrong pin. Scoring only “does this sound like a sentence?” will not move that pin. The model already knows how to sound like a sentence. That was the easy part.
Scoring the referent — who “it” is, which city, which person — is how later lists learn the right neighbor. We’ll talk about this more later, but for now it’s enough to know that the relationships between all these bits of information can have huge impacts down the line.
The dog chased the cat until it barked.
- dog72%
- cat22%
- sofa6%
“It” is leaning toward dog. “Barked” tugs “it” toward the dog. Right neighborhood (animals). Right house, this time.
Quiz
6 questions
Before moving forward, test your knowledge of what you’ve just learned!
1.A mix miss is:
2.A fluent wrong animal:
3.Scoring only fluency:
4.Flipping “meowed” to “barked” should:
5.Who “it” points to is:
6.This book plus Book 2:
0 of 6 answered
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