Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses, sentence 0

Your dog is fast asleep on the rug, but its paws are paddling, its lips twitch and it gives tiny muffled woofs.

Who acts: dog, paws, lips · What happens: be, paddle, twitch, give, muffle · To what, where: rug, tiny muffled woofs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses» 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 (dog, paws, lips), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dog	nmod:poss
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asleep	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	cop
4	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 asleep	advmod
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 rug	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rug	det
8	rug	rug	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asleep	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 paddling	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 paddling	cc
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 paws	nmod:poss
12	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 paddling	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 paddling	aux
14	paddling	paddle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 asleep	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 twitch	punct
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lips	nmod:poss
17	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 twitch	nsubj
18	twitch	twitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 paddling	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gives	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gives	nsubj
21	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	conj
22	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woofs	amod
23	muffled	muffle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 woofs	amod
24	woofs	woof	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gives	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your dog		the rug	asleep property	tree rules
2	paddle	present · progressive	dog's paws				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	twitch	present	dog's lips				vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	give	present	dog	tiny muffled woofs			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woof=Theme
5	muffle	participle					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: 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:391-do-animals-dream-twitching-dogs-replaying-rats-and-colour-changing-octopuses.lesson:0.

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): 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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