How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air, sentence 1

It is asleep, but only with half its brain: the other half stays awake to steer, come up to breathe and watch for danger.

Who acts: It, other half · What happens: be, stay, steer, come up, breathe, watch

This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air» 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 (It, other half), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asleep	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	cop
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brain	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 come	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 half	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 half	case
8	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 asleep	obl
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brain	nmod:poss
10	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 half	nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 stays	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 half	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 half	amod
14	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	15 stays	nsubj
15	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	parataxis
16	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stays	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 steer	mark
18	steer	steer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 awake	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asleep	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 come	compound:prt
22	to	to	PART	_	23 breathe	mark
23	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 come	advcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 watch	cc
25	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 breathe	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 danger	case
27	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 watch	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	with half half's brain; asleep property	tree rules
2	stay	present	the other half	awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	steer	to-infinitive	the other half not said here		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	come up	infinitive			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	breathe	to-infinitive			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	watch	infinitive		for danger	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for danger=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:390-how-animals-sleep-half-asleep-dolphins-standing-horses-short-sleeping-giraffes-and-birds-that-nap-in-the-air.lesson:1.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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