How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans, sentence 19

Good animal tests use rewards, let animals choose to take part and never hurt them, and many countries have rules to protect animals in science.

Who acts: Good animal tests, animals, many countries · What happens: use, let, choose, take, not hurt, have · To what, where: rewards, animals, part, rules, science

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 (Good animal tests, animals, many countries), 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	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tests	amod
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tests	compound
3	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	nsubj
4	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	rewards	reward	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 use	conj
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 let	obj
9	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 take	mark
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 choose	xcomp
12	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hurt	cc
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 hurt	advmod
15	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hurt	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 have	cc
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 countries	amod
20	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 have	nsubj
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 use	conj
22	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 have	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 protect	mark
24	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 rules	acl
25	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 protect	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 science	case
27	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 protect	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	use	present	Good animal tests	rewards			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Patient
2	let	infinitive	Good animal tests not said here	animals			tree rules
3	choose	infinitive	animals not said here				tree rules
4	take	to-infinitive	animals not said here	part			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
5	not hurt	infinitive	Good animal tests not said here	rewards = reward			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient
6	have	present	many countries	rules			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient
7	protect	to-infinitive	many countries not said here	rules not said here	animals	science	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Beneficiary

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:19.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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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