How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans, sentence 7

Good scientists repeat tests with many animals in other labs, use rewards, let animals choose to take part and never hurt them.

Who acts: Good scientists, animals · What happens: repeat, use, let, choose, take, not hurt · To what, where: tests, other labs, rewards, animals, part, scientists

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 scientists, animals), 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	2 scientists	amod
2	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 repeat	nsubj
3	repeat	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 repeat	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 animals	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tests	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 labs	case
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 labs	amod
10	labs	lab	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 repeat	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 use	punct
12	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 repeat	conj
13	rewards	reward	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 use	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 repeat	conj
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 let	obj
17	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 take	mark
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 choose	xcomp
20	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hurt	cc
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 hurt	advmod
23	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 repeat	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hurt	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 repeat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	repeat	present	Good scientists	tests	other labs	with many animals	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent test=Eventuality with animal=Subeventuality
2	use	present	Good scientists not said here	rewards			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Patient
3	let	infinitive	Good scientists not said here	animals			tree rules
4	choose	infinitive	animals not said here				tree rules
5	take	to-infinitive	animals not said here	part			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
6	not hurt	infinitive	Good scientists not said here	scientists = scientist			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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:7.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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