Sleep and dreams in people, sentence 4

Children of 9 or 10 need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep a night and grown-ups about 7 to 9; too little sleep makes it harder to concentrate and makes people grumpy.

Who acts: little sleep, brain · What happens: need, make, concentrate · To what, where: brain, people

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 (little sleep, brain), 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 9	case
3	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Children	nmod
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 10	cc
5	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 9	conj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 9	case
8	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 hours	nummod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 hours	case
10	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 hours	nummod
11	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 sleep	case
13	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hours	nmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sleep	nmod:unmarked
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grown	cc
17	grown	grow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Children	conj
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 grown	punct
19	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 grown	flat
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 7	advmod
21	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 grown	obl:unmarked
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 9	case
23	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 7	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 makes	punct
25	too	too	ADV	_	26 little	advmod
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sleep	amod
27	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 makes	nsubj
28	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 makes	obj
30	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 makes	xcomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 concentrate	mark
32	concentrate	concentrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 harder	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 makes	cc
34	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 makes	conj
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 makes	obj
36	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 makes	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	need	present			hour		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	make	present	little sleep	brain		hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	concentrate	to-infinitive	brain not said here				vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	make	present	little sleep not said here	people		grumpy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product

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:4.

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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