How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air, sentence 8

Ducks at the edge of a sleeping row keep the outward eye open and that half of the brain awake, while ducks in the middle sleep more deeply.

Who acts: Ducks · What happens: keep, sleep · To what, where: outward eye

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 (Ducks), 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	Ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 edge	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 edge	det
4	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ducks	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 row	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 row	det
7	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 row	compound
8	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 edge	nmod
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 eye	det
11	outward	outward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eye	amod
12	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obj
13	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 keep	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 awake	cc
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 half	det
16	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	20 awake	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 brain	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 brain	det
19	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 half	nmod
20	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 keep	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ducks	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 sleep	mark
23	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sleep	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 middle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 middle	det
26	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ducks	nmod
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	advcl
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 deeply	advmod
29	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	27 sleep	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 keep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Ducks at the edge of a sleeping row	the outward eye				open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
2	sleep	present	ducks in the middle					deeply property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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:390-how-animals-sleep-half-asleep-dolphins-standing-horses-short-sleeping-giraffes-and-birds-that-nap-in-the-air.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. 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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