Test 11 · ★★★ · How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle…

Why did Clever Hans still deserve the name clever?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Clever · What happens: deserve · To what, where: name

This is test 11 · ★★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 deserve	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 deserve	aux
3	Clever	Clever	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 deserve	nsubj
4	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Clever	flat
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 deserve	advmod
6	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 name	det
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deserve	obj
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deserve	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 deserve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deserve	past · do-support	Clever	the name			still	clever property	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

He could talk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talk	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 talk	aux
3	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	could	He						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He could do real sums in his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 do	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 do	aux
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sums	amod
5	sums	sum	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 do	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	could	He	real sums		his head			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality

Option 3

He could write numbers in the sand with his hoof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 write	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 write	aux
3	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 write	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sand	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sand	det
7	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 write	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 hoof	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hoof	nmod:poss
10	hoof	hoof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 write	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	could	He	numbers		the sand		with his hoof	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent number=Theme in sand=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He was very good at reading people's tiny movements

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 good	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 good	advmod
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	SCONJ	_	6 reading	mark
6	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 good	advcl
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 movements	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 people	case
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 movements	amod
10	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reading	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		good property	tree rules
2	read	gerund	He not said here	people's tiny movements		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Topic
3	move		people			nom movement «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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