Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses, sentence 10
During this busy sleep a part of the brain stops the body acting out the dream, so a sleeping dog or cat only twitches, paddles or makes small sounds.
Who acts: part, sleeping dog · What happens: stop, act out, twitch, paddle, make · To what, where: body, dream, small sounds
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 (part, sleeping dog), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 sleep | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sleep | det |
| 3 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sleep | amod |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stops | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 part | det |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stops | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 brain | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brain | det |
| 9 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nmod |
| 10 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 body | det |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stops | obj |
| 13 | acting | act | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 stops | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 acting | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dream | det |
| 16 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 acting | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 twitches | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 twitches | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dog | det |
| 20 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dog | compound |
| 21 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 twitches | nsubj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 cat | cc |
| 23 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dog | conj |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 twitches | advmod |
| 25 | twitches | twitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stops | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 paddles | punct |
| 27 | paddles | paddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 twitches | conj |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 makes | cc |
| 29 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 twitches | conj |
| 30 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sounds | amod |
| 31 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 makes | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | a part of the brain | the body | during this busy sleep | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality body=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | act out | gerund | a part of the brain not said here | the dream | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent dream=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | twitch | present | a sleeping dog or cat | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | paddle | present | a sleeping dog or cat not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | make | present | a sleeping dog or cat not said here | small sounds | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |
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:10.
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, 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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