How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air, sentence 7

A dolphin can sleep with one half of its brain while the other half stays awake, and the halves take turns.

Who acts: dolphin, other half, halves · What happens: sleep, stay, take · To what, where: turns

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 (dolphin, other half, halves), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dolphin	det
2	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	aux
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 half	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 half	nummod
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 sleep	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 brain	case
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	7 half	nmod
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 stays	mark
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	4 sleep	advcl
16	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stays	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 take	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 halves	det
20	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 take	nsubj
21	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	conj
22	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 take	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sleep	can	a dolphin		with one half of dolphin's brain	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stay	present	the other half		awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	present	the halves	turns		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=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: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): R5-strong ×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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