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title: Good scientists repeat tests with many animals in other labs, use re… — How scientists test animal minds: the mirror tes… · tree and pragmatics
description: Good scientists repeat tests with many animals in other labs, use rewards, let animals choose to take part and never hurt them. Who acts: Good scientists, animals. A sentence of the lesson «How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans» of the biology course of Mova
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# How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans, sentence 7

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Good scientists repeat tests with many animals in other labs, use rewards, let animals choose to take part and never hurt them.

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**Who acts:** Good scientists, animals · **What happens:** repeat, use, let, choose, take, not hurt · **To what, where:** tests, other labs, rewards, animals, part, scientists

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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 (Good scientists, animals), 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:7
# text = Good scientists repeat tests with many animals in other labs, use rewards, let animals choose to take part and never hurt them.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	repeat	repeat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	labs	lab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
12	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	rewards	reward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | present | Good scientists | tests |  | other labs |  | with many animals | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent test=Eventuality with animal=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **use** | present | Good scientists *not said here* | rewards |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Patient |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | Good scientists *not said here* | animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **choose** | infinitive | animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | animals *not said here* | part |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **hurt** | infinitive | Good scientists *not said here* | scientists *= scientist* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |

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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:7`.

**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, R8-pos-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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