Test 6 · ★★★ · How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle…

«a crow got a treat outta a tube with stones, it's a fluke» What would make the result stronger?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crow · What happens: get, be, make · To what, where: treat outta, fluke · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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 got	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crow	det
3	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 outta	det
6	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 outta	compound
7	outta	outta	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tube	det
9	tube	tube	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 stones	case
11	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tube	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fluke	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fluke	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fluke	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fluke	det
16	fluke	fluke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 fluke	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 make	obj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 make	aux
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 fluke	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 result	det
22	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	obj
23	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 make	xcomp
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past	a crow	a treat outta		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent outta=Beneficiary tube=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	crow	a fluke		tree rules
3	make	would		a fluke	strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary result=Product

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 · ✓ the right answer

Many crows doing it again, in other labs too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 crows	amod
2	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 crows	acl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 doing	obj
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 doing	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 labs	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 labs	case
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 labs	amod
9	labs	lab	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crows	conj
10	too	too	ADV	_	9 labs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund	Many crows and other labs not said here	it			again		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

One crow doing it once more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 crow	nummod
2	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 crow	acl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 doing	obj
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 doing	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 doing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund	One crow not said here	crow				once property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

Telling a friend about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	iobj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Telling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			a friend			about friend	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient about it=Topic

Option 4

Painting the tube red so the crows can see it better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painting	paint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tube	det
3	tube	tube	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Painting	obj
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tube	amod
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 see	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crows	det
7	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 see	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Painting	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	obj
11	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	gerund		the tube					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent tube=Destination
2	see	can	the crows	tube				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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