--- title: When Alex named a thing correctly he was often given that very thing… — How scientists test animal minds: the mirror tes… · tree and pragmatics description: When Alex named a thing correctly he was often given that very thing as his reward; scientists argue how much he understood, but he showed parrots can do far more than copy sounds. Who acts: Alex, scientists, parrots. A sentence of the lesson «How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzl --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans, sentence 17 When Alex named a thing correctly he was often given that very thing as his reward; scientists argue how much he understood, but he showed parrots can do far more than copy sounds. **Who acts:** Alex, scientists, parrots · **What happens:** name, give, argue, understand, show, do · **To what, where:** thing, Alex, much, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Alex, scientists, parrots), 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:17 # text = When Alex named a thing correctly he was often given that very thing as his reward; scientists argue how much he understood, but he showed parrots can do far more than copy sounds. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 Alex Alex PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 named name VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 correctly correctly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 9 often often ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 12 very very ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 13 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 reward reward NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 18 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 20 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 21 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obj _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 understood understand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 parrots parrot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 ccomp _ _ 31 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 32 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 obj _ _ 33 than than ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 copy copy NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **name** | past | Alex | a thing | | | | correctly *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 2 | **give** | past · passive | | Alex | | | | as Alex's reward; often *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient thing=Theme | | 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | scientists | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **understand** | past | Alex | much | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | | 5 | **show** | past | Alex | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **do** | can | parrots | more | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | | 7 | **reward** | | Alex | | | | | | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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:17`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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