How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans, sentence 10

Dogs know the world mostly by smell, and one scientist reported that dogs spend less time sniffing their own wee than another dog's.

Who acts: Dogs, one scientist · What happens: know, report, spend, sniff · To what, where: world, own wee

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 (Dogs, one scientist), 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	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	obj
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	7 smell	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 smell	case
7	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reported	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 reported	cc
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 scientist	nummod
11	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reported	nsubj
12	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 know	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 spend	mark
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 spend	nsubj
15	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 reported	ccomp
16	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spend	obj
18	sniffing	sniff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 spend	advcl
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wee	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wee	amod
21	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sniffing	obj
22	than	than	ADP	_	24 dog	case
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	24 dog	det
24	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sniffing	obl
25	's	's	PART	_	24 dog	case
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Dogs	the world		by smell	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus
2	report	past	one scientist				vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	spend	present	dogs		time		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sniff	gerund	dogs not said here	scientists's own wee		than another dog	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wee=Theme

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:10.

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): no change. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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