--- title: Clever Hans tapped right answers by reading tiny movements of the pe… — How scientists test animal minds: the mirror tes… · tree and pragmatics description: Clever Hans tapped right answers by reading tiny movements of the people watching, so he was clever at reading people, not at maths. Who acts: Clever, people. 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 pr --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans, sentence 12 Clever Hans tapped right answers by reading tiny movements of the people watching, so he was clever at reading people, not at maths. **Who acts:** Clever, people · **What happens:** tap, read, watch, be, move · **To what, where:** right answers, tiny movements, people 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 (Clever, people), 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:12 # text = Clever Hans tapped right answers by reading tiny movements of the people watching, so he was clever at reading people, not at maths. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Clever Clever PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Hans Hans PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 tapped tap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 answers answer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 movements movement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 19 at at SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 maths math NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tap** | past | Clever | right answers | | | | | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent answer=Location | | 2 | **read** | gerund | Clever *not said here* | tiny movements of the people | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Topic | | 3 | **watch** | gerund | the people *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | Clever | | | | | clever *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **read** | gerund | Clever *not said here* | people | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | | 6 | **move** | | | the people | | | | | 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](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:12`. **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 ×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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