--- title: Scientists put a coloured mark on cleaner wrasse fish, and some rubb… — Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bee… · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists put a coloured mark on cleaner wrasse fish, and some rubbed it off after seeing it in a mirror; whether this means they know themselves is still argued. Who acts: Scientists, some, this. A sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Surprising brains: tool-using fish, co…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/) / 8 # Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 8 Scientists put a coloured mark on cleaner wrasse fish, and some rubbed it off after seeing it in a mirror; whether this means they know themselves is still argued. **Who acts:** Scientists, some, this · **What happens:** put, colour, rub off, see, mean, know · **To what, where:** coloured mark, mark, mirror, Scientists · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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, some, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:8 # text = Scientists put a coloured mark on cleaner wrasse fish, and some rubbed it off after seeing it in a mirror; whether this means they know themselves is still argued. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson # annotation = 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 coloured colour VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 cleaner cleaner NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 wrasse wrasse NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 13 rubbed rub VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 16 after after SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 csubj:pass _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 28 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 27 obj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 30 still still ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past | Scientists | a coloured mark | | | | on cleaner wrasse fish | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme on fish=Destination | | 2 | **colour** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **rub off** | past | some | mark | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **see** | gerund | some *not said here* | mark | | a mirror | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **mean** | present | this | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **know** | present | Scientists *= scientist* | Scientists *= scientist* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus | | 7 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | | | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:8`. **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, R8-pos-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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