How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans, sentence 4

Since then scientists make sure the person testing an animal does not know the answer, so nobody can give hints by accident.

Who acts: scientists, person, nobody · What happens: make, test, not know, give · To what, where: animal, answer, hints

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 (scientists, person, nobody), 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	Since	since	ADP	_	2 then	case
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 make	obl
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 make	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 know	nsubj
8	testing	test	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 person	acl
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 animal	det
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 testing	obj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sure	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 answer	det
15	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 know	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 give	advmod
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 give	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 give	aux
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 know	conj
21	hints	hint	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 give	obj
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 accident	case
23	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	scientists		sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	test	gerund	the person not said here	a animal		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
3	not know	present · do-support	the person	the answer		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus
4	give	can	nobody	hints	by accident	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hint=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:4.

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 ×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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