--- title: Great apes, dolphins, one elephant and some magpies are reported to… — How scientists test animal minds: the mirror tes… · tree and pragmatics description: Great apes, dolphins, one elephant and some magpies are reported to pass the mirror test, while most monkeys, dogs and cats do not. 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 with its depen --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # How scientists test animal minds: the mirror test, puzzle boxes and Clever Hans, sentence 9 Great apes, dolphins, one elephant and some magpies are reported to pass the mirror test, while most monkeys, dogs and cats do not. **What happens:** report, pass · **To what, where:** Great apes, mirror test 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: 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:9 # text = Great apes, dolphins, one elephant and some magpies are reported to pass the mirror test, while most monkeys, dogs and cats do not. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 apes ape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 dolphins dolphin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 magpies magpie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 20 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 amod _ _ 21 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 26 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | present · passive | | Great apes and dolphins and one elephant and some magpies | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | | the mirror test | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme test=Trajectory | 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:9`. **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): 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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