--- title: In the water jar test, based on an old fable, rooks and crows droppe… — How scientists test animal minds: the mirror tes… · tree and pragmatics description: In the water jar test, based on an old fable, rooks and crows dropped stones into a tube until the water rose with a floating treat; children usually pass it at about seven or eight. Who acts: rooks, water, children. A sentence of the lesson «How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans, sentence 14 In the water jar test, based on an old fable, rooks and crows dropped stones into a tube until the water rose with a floating treat; children usually pass it at about seven or eight. **Who acts:** rooks, water, children · **What happens:** base, drop, rise, float, pass · **To what, where:** jar test, old fable, stones, water, seven 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 (rooks, water, children), 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:14 # text = In the water jar test, based on an old fable, rooks and crows dropped stones into a tube until the water rose with a floating treat; children usually pass it at about seven or eight. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 based base VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 fable fable NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 rooks rook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ _ 17 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 tube tube NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 until until SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 treat treat NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 usually usually ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 pass pass VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 about about ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 obl _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **base** | participle | | the jar test *not said here* | | a old fable | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on fable=Source | | 2 | **drop** | past | rooks and crows | stones | | the jar test | | into a tube | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in test=Destination into tube=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **rise** | past | the water | | | | | with a floating treat | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **pass** | present | children | water | | seven | | usually *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at seven=Destination | 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:14`. **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, 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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