--- title: In the mirror test, great apes, dolphins, elephants and magpies have… — The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and… · tree and pragmatics description: In the mirror test, great apes, dolphins, elephants and magpies have noticed a mark on their own body, dogs and cats usually ignore it, and human babies usually pass at about 18 months. Who acts: great apes, dogs, human babies. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great apes, dogs, human babies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:085-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos.lesson:14 # text = In the mirror test, great apes, dolphins, elephants and magpies have noticed a mark on their own body, dogs and cats usually ignore it, and human babies usually pass at about 18 months. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 085-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos.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): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 apes ape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 dolphins dolphin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 magpies magpie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 14 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 noticed notice VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 usually usually ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 ignore ignore VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 usually usually ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 pass pass VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 about about ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **notice** | present · perfect | great apes and dolphins and elephants and magpies | a mark | | the mirror test | | on Apes's own body | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus | | 2 | **ignore** | present | dogs and cats | mark | | | | usually *property* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **pass** | present | human babies | | | | month | usually *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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. 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