How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans, sentence 0
Put a sticker on your forehead, look in the mirror and you pull it off at once: you know the face in the mirror is you.
Who acts: you, face · What happens: put, look, pull off, know, be · To what, where: sticker, forehead, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «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 its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, face), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sticker | det |
| 3 | sticker | sticker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 forehead | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 6 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 mirror | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mirror | det |
| 11 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pull | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 pull | nsubj |
| 14 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pull | obj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 pull | compound:prt |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | _ | 14 pull | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 pull | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 face | det |
| 23 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 you | nsubj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 mirror | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mirror | det |
| 26 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 face | nmod |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 you | cop |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 know | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | a sticker | your forehead | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sticker=Theme on forehead=Destination | |||
| 2 | look | infinitive | you not said here | in the mirror | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mirror=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pull off | present | you | sticker | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | the face in the mirror | you | 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.
Licence: CC 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:389-how-scientists-test-animal-minds-the-mirror-test-puzzle-boxes-and-clever-hans.lesson:0.
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 ×1. 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.
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