--- title: In the mirror test scientists put a mark on an animal where it can s… — How scientists test animal minds: the mirror tes… · tree and pragmatics description: In the mirror test scientists put a mark on an animal where it can see it only in a mirror and watch whether it touches the mark on its own body. Who acts: test scientists, mark. A sentence of the lesson «How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans» of the biology --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/389-how-scientists-test-animal-minds-the-mirror-test-puzzle-boxes-and-clever-hans/1/) [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/) / [How scientists test animal minds: the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/389-how-scientists-test-animal-minds-the-mirror-test-puzzle-boxes-and-clever-hans/) / 1 # How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans, sentence 1 In the mirror test scientists put a mark on an animal where it can see it only in a mirror and watch whether it touches the mark on its own body. **Who acts:** test scientists, mark · **What happens:** put, see, watch, touch · **To what, where:** mark, animal, mirror 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 (test scientists, mark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:389-how-scientists-test-animal-minds-the-mirror-test-puzzle-boxes-and-clever-hans.lesson:1 # text = In the mirror test scientists put a mark on an animal where it can see it only in a mirror and watch whether it touches the mark on its own body. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 389-how-scientists-test-animal-minds-the-mirror-test-puzzle-boxes-and-clever-hans.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 3 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound 4 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl 6 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 15 advmod _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 23 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 touches touch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advcl 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **put** | past | test scientists | a mark | | | | on a animal | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme on animal=Destination | | 2 | **see** | can | mark | animal | | a mirror | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 3 | **watch** | infinitive | mark *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **touch** | present | mark | the mark | | | | on mirror's own body | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mark=Experiencer on body=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](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:389-how-scientists-test-animal-minds-the-mirror-test-puzzle-boxes-and-clever-hans.lesson:1`. **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 ×3, 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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