Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses, sentence 11
Kittens and puppies spend even more time in this busy sleep than grown-up cats and dogs.
Who acts: Kittens · What happens: spend, grow · To what, where: busy sleep
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 (Kittens), 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 | Kittens | kitten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spend | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 puppies | cc |
| 3 | puppies | puppy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Kittens | conj |
| 4 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spend | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sleep | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 sleep | det |
| 10 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sleep | amod |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spend | obl |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 cats | case |
| 13 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 cats | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 up | punct |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 grown | compound |
| 16 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sleep | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dogs | cc |
| 18 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cats | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spend | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | present | Kittens and puppies | this busy sleep than grown cats and dogs | time | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:391-do-animals-dream-twitching-dogs-replaying-rats-and-colour-changing-octopuses.lesson:11.
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): R8-pos-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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