--- title: Since then scientists make sure the person testing an animal does no… — How scientists test animal minds: the mirror tes… · tree and pragmatics description: Since then scientists make sure the person testing an animal does not know the answer, so nobody can give hints by accident. Who acts: scientists, person, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans» of the biology course of Mova' --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans, sentence 4 Since then scientists make sure the person testing an animal does not know the answer, so nobody can give hints by accident. **Who acts:** scientists, person, nobody · **What happens:** make, test, not know, give · **To what, where:** animal, answer, hints 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 (scientists, person, nobody), 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:4 # text = Since then scientists make sure the person testing an animal does not know the answer, so nobody can give hints by accident. # 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 ×1 1 Since since ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 obl _ _ 3 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 8 testing test VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 18 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 21 hints hint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | scientists | | | | | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **test** | gerund | the person *not said here* | a animal | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | | 3 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | the person | the answer | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus | | 4 | **give** | can | nobody | hints | | | | by accident | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hint=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:4`. **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 ×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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