Test 10 · ★★★ · How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle…

«are these animals in tests treated ok or what» What is the right picture?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, treat · To what, where: animals, tests, right picture

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 389 «How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans» 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	_	4 animals	punct
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	cop
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 tests	case
6	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 animals	nmod
7	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 tests	acl
8	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 treated	xcomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 treated	conj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 picture	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 picture	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 picture	det
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 picture	amod
16	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 what	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 animals	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	this animals	tests		tree rules
2	treat in a quote	participle	tests not said here		ok property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	the right picture			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 · ✓ the right answer

Good tests use rewards, let animals choose and never hurt them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tests	amod
2	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rewards	reward	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 use	parataxis
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 let	obj
8	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hurt	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 hurt	advmod
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 let	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	use	present	Good tests	rewards	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Patient
2	let	infinitive		animals	tree rules
3	choose	infinitive	animals not said here		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not hurt	infinitive		animals = animal	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient

Option 2

All tests hurt animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 tests	det
2	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hurt	nsubj
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	past	all tests	animals					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Patient

Option 3

Tests are only done on toy animals, never on real living ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 done	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 done	advmod
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 animals	case
6	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animals	compound
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 done	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ones	punct
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 ones	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 ones	case
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ones	amod
12	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ones	amod
13	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 done	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · passive		Tests				on toy animals; on real living ones	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

Animals are never tested

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tested	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tested	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 tested	advmod
4	tested	test	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not test	present · passive		Animals					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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