How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans, sentence 12

Clever Hans tapped right answers by reading tiny movements of the people watching, so he was clever at reading people, not at maths.

Who acts: Clever, people · What happens: tap, read, watch, be, move · To what, where: right answers, tiny movements, people

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 (Clever, people), 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	Clever	Clever	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tapped	nsubj
2	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Clever	flat
3	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answers	amod
5	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tapped	obj
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 reading	mark
7	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tapped	advcl
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 movements	amod
9	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reading	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 people	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 movements	nmod
13	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 people	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 clever	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 clever	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 clever	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 clever	cop
18	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tapped	parataxis
19	at	at	SCONJ	_	20 reading	mark
20	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 clever	advcl
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 reading	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 maths	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 maths	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 maths	case
25	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 reading	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tapped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tap	past	Clever	right answers		vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent answer=Location
2	read	gerund	Clever not said here	tiny movements of the people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Topic
3	watch	gerund	the people not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Clever		clever property	tree rules
5	read	gerund	Clever not said here	people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic
6	move			the people		nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient

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:12.

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 ×2. 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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