How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans, sentence 3
A scientist showed that Hans was watching tiny, unknowing movements of the people around him: they relaxed when he reached the right number, and he stopped.
Who acts: scientist, Hans, scientists · What happens: show, watch, relax, reach, stop, move · To what, where: tiny unknowing movements, right number, people · 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 (scientist, Hans, scientists), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 scientist | det |
| 2 | scientist | scientist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | nsubj |
| 3 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 watching | mark |
| 5 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | _ | 7 watching | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 watching | aux |
| 7 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 showed | ccomp |
| 8 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 movements | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tiny | punct |
| 10 | unknowing | unknowing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 movements | amod |
| 11 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 watching | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 movements | nmod |
| 15 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 people | nmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 relaxed | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 relaxed | nsubj |
| 19 | relaxed | relax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 showed | conj |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 reached | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 reached | nsubj |
| 22 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 relaxed | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 number | det |
| 24 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 number | amod |
| 25 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reached | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stopped | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stopped | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 stopped | nsubj |
| 29 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 relaxed | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | a scientist | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | watch | past · progressive | Hans | tiny unknowing movements of the people around horse | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme | ||||
| 3 | relax | past | scientists = scientist | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | Hans | the right number | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent number=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stop | past | Hans | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | move | the people around horse | 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:3.
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. 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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