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title: One clever animal might be special, or a test might have a mistake,… — How scientists test animal minds: the mirror tes… · tree and pragmatics
description: One clever animal might be special, or a test might have a mistake, so tests are repeated with many animals and in other labs. Who acts: One clever animal, test. 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
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# How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans, sentence 18

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One clever animal might be special, or a test might have a mistake, so tests are repeated with many animals and in other labs.

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**Who acts:** One clever animal, test · **What happens:** be, have, repeat · **To what, where:** mistake, tests

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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 (One clever animal, test), 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:18
# text = One clever animal might be special, or a test might have a mistake, so tests are repeated with many animals and in other labs.
# 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	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
17	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	labs	lab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | might | One clever animal |  |  |  |  | special *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | might | a test | a mistake |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Patient |
| 3 | **repeat** | present · passive |  | tests |  |  |  | with many animals and other labs | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: subject=Eventuality with animal=Subeventuality |

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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.

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**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:18`.

**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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