Sleep and dreams in people, sentence 3

The brain also plays tricks at night: twitches as you drop off, nightmares, sleepwalking and dreams that vanish by breakfast are all normal parts of sleep.

Who acts: brain, you, dreams · What happens: play, drop off, vanish, be · To what, where: tricks, normal parts

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 (brain, you, dreams), 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	2 brain	det
2	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plays	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 plays	advmod
4	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 plays	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plays	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 twitches	punct
9	twitches	twitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 night	conj
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 drop	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 drop	nsubj
12	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 plays	advcl
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 drop	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nightmares	punct
15	nightmares	nightmare	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 twitches	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sleepwalking	punct
17	sleepwalking	sleepwalking	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nightmares	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dreams	cc
19	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 parts	nsubj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 vanish	nsubj
21	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 dreams	acl:relcl
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 breakfast	case
23	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 vanish	obl
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 parts	cop
25	all	all	ADV	_	26 normal	advmod
26	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 parts	amod
27	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 plays	parataxis
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 sleep	case
29	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 parts	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 plays	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	the brain	tricks	night		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
2	drop off	present	you				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	vanish	present	dreams			by breakfast	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present	dreams	normal parts		of sleep	tree rules

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:3.

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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