Sleep and dreams in people, sentence 8
Babies spend about half their sleep in REM, grown-ups only about a fifth.
Who acts: Babies · What happens: spend, grow, sleep · To what, where: sleep, REM
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 (Babies), 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 | Babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spend | nsubj |
| 2 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 half | advmod |
| 4 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 6 sleep | det:predet |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spend | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 REM | case |
| 8 | REM | rem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spend | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grown | punct |
| 10 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ups | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ups | punct |
| 12 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spend | conj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 fifth | advmod |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 fifth | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fifth | det |
| 16 | fifth | fifth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ups | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spend | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | present | Babies | Babies's sleep | REM | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Asset | |||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | sleep | Babies = baby | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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:8.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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