Sleep and dreams in people, sentence 15
The sudden jerk as you fall asleep is a common, harmless muscle twitch, and nobody is sure why it happens.
Who acts: you, sudden jerk, nobody, it · What happens: fall, be, happen · To what, where: sudden jerk, common harmless muscle twitch
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 (you, sudden jerk, nobody, it), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 jerk | det |
| 2 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 jerk | amod |
| 3 | jerk | jerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 twitch | nsubj |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 fall | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 fall | nsubj |
| 6 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 jerk | acl |
| 7 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fall | xcomp |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 twitch | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 twitch | det |
| 10 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 twitch | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 common | punct |
| 12 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 twitch | amod |
| 13 | muscle | muscle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 twitch | compound |
| 14 | twitch | twitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sure | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sure | cc |
| 17 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 sure | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sure | cop |
| 19 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 twitch | conj |
| 20 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 happens | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 happens | nsubj |
| 22 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sure | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 twitch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | you | the sudden jerk not said here | asleep property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient jerk=Result | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the sudden jerk | a common harmless muscle twitch | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | nobody | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | happen | present | it | 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, 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:15.
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. 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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