How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air, sentence 12

Scientists reported that wild sloths sleep about nine or ten hours a day, not twenty; the big number came from sloths in zoos.

Who acts: Scientists, wild sloths, big number · What happens: report, sleep, come · To what, where: zoos

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 (Scientists, wild sloths, big number), 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	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reported	nsubj
2	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 sleep	mark
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sloths	amod
5	sloths	sloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sleep	nsubj
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reported	ccomp
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 nine	advmod
8	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hours	nummod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 ten	cc
10	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 nine	conj
11	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sleep	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hours	nmod:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 twenty	punct
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 twenty	advmod
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 day	appos
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 number	det
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 number	amod
20	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reported	conj
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 sloths	case
23	sloths	sloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 came	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 zoos	case
25	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 came	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reported	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	report	past	Scientists				vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	sleep	present	wild sloths		hour		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	the big number	zoos		from sloths	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sloth=Initial_Location

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:12.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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