Sleep and dreams in people, sentence 7

REM sleep, short for rapid eye movement, is when most vivid dreams happen, and the brain switches off most muscles so you do not act out your dreams.

Who acts: REM sleep, brain, you, your · What happens: be, switch off, not act out, dream · To what, where: most muscles, dreams

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 (REM sleep, brain, you, your), 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	REM	rem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleep	compound
2	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 happen	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 short	punct
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sleep	amod
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 movement	case
6	rapid	rapid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 movement	amod
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 movement	compound
8	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 short	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sleep	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 happen	cop
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 happen	advmod
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 vivid	advmod
13	vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dreams	amod
14	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 happen	nsubj
15	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 switches	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 switches	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 brain	det
19	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 switches	nsubj
20	switches	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 happen	conj
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 switches	compound:prt
22	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 muscles	amod
23	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 switches	obj
24	so	so	ADV	_	28 act	advmod
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 act	nsubj
26	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 act	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 act	advmod
28	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 switches	advcl
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 act	compound:prt
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 dreams	nmod:poss
31	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 act	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 happen	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	REM sleep		happen property	tree rules
2	switch off	present	the brain	most muscles		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient
3	not act out	present · do-support	you	your dreams		vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent dream=Eventuality
4	dream		your			nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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:7.

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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