Sleep and dreams in people, sentence 14

Yawns are catching, even reading about yawning can start one, dogs can catch yawns from their owners, and scientists still argue why we yawn.

Who acts: Yawns, dogs, scientists, we · What happens: catch, read, yawn, start, argue · To what, where: one, yawns, owners · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Yawns, dogs, scientists, we), 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	Yawns	yawn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catching	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 catching	aux
3	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reading	punct
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 reading	advmod
6	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 start	nsubj
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 yawning	case
8	yawning	yawn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 reading	obl
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 start	aux
10	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 catching	conj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 start	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 catch	punct
13	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 catch	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 catch	aux
15	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 catching	conj
16	yawns	yawn	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 catch	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 owners	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 owners	nmod:poss
19	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 catch	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 argue	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 argue	cc
22	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 argue	nsubj
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 argue	advmod
24	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 catching	conj
25	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	27 yawn	advmod
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 yawn	nsubj
27	yawn	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 argue	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 catching	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	catch	present · progressive	Yawns				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	read	gerund					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	yawn	gerund					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	start	can		one			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality
5	catch	can	dogs	yawns	Yawns's owners		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent yawn=Theme from owner=Source
6	argue speech: disagree	present	scientists			still	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	yawn	present	we				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:14.

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): no change. 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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