Sleep and dreams in people, sentence 1

A night is like a ride on a slow wave: you sink from light sleep into deep sleep, rise into dreaming sleep, and do it all again, about every 90 minutes.

Who acts: night, you · What happens: be, sink, rise, dream, do · To what, where: slow wave, light sleep, dreaming sleep, Sleep

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep and dreams in people» 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 (night, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ride	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ride	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 ride	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ride	det
6	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 wave	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wave	det
9	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wave	amod
10	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ride	nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 sink	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 sink	nsubj
13	sink	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ride	parataxis
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 sleep	case
15	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sleep	compound
16	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sink	obl
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 sleep	case
18	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sleep	amod
19	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sink	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rise	punct
21	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sink	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 sleep	case
23	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sleep	amod
24	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rise	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 do	cc
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sink	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 do	obj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 it	nmod:unmarked
30	again	again	ADV	_	27 do	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 minutes	punct
32	about	about	ADV	_	35 minutes	advmod
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 minutes	det
34	90	90	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 minutes	nummod
35	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 do	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ride	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a night		a slow wave		like a ride	tree rules
2	sink	present	you		light sleep		into deep sleep	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	rise	present	you not said here		dreaming sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sleep=Initial_Location
4	dream	gerund						vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	do	infinitive	you not said here	Sleep		again; minute		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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, 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:363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people.lesson:1.

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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