How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans, sentence 18

One clever animal might be special, or a test might have a mistake, so tests are repeated with many animals and in other labs.

Who acts: One clever animal, test · What happens: be, have, repeat · To what, where: mistake, tests

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 (One clever animal, test), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 animal	nummod
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animal	amod
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 special	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 special	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 special	cop
6	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 have	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 test	det
10	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 special	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mistake	det
14	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 repeated	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 repeated	advmod
17	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 repeated	nsubj:pass
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 repeated	aux:pass
19	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 have	advcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 animals	case
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 animals	amod
22	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 repeated	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 labs	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 labs	case
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 labs	amod
26	labs	lab	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 animals	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 special	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	might	One clever animal		special property	tree rules
2	have	might	a test	a mistake		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Patient
3	repeat	present · passive		tests	with many animals and other labs	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: subject=Eventuality with animal=Subeventuality

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:18.

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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