Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses, sentence 17
The platypus, an odd old mammal, was reported to have a large amount of the sleep stage linked to dreaming, but its version looks a bit different from ours and scientists still argue about it.
Who acts: version, scientists · What happens: report, have, link, dream, look, argue · To what, where: platypus, large amount, sleep stage
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 (version, scientists), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 platypus | det |
| 2 | platypus | platypus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mammal | punct |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mammal | det |
| 5 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mammal | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mammal | amod |
| 7 | mammal | mammal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 platypus | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 platypus | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reported | aux:pass |
| 10 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 reported | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 amount | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 amount | amod |
| 15 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 stage | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stage | det |
| 18 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stage | compound |
| 19 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 amount | nmod |
| 20 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stage | acl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 dreaming | case |
| 22 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 linked | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 looks | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 looks | cc |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 version | nmod:poss |
| 26 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 looks | nsubj |
| 27 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 reported | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bit | det |
| 29 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 different | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 looks | xcomp |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 ours | case |
| 32 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 different | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 argue | cc |
| 34 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 argue | nsubj |
| 35 | still | still | ADV | _ | 36 argue | advmod |
| 36 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 looks | conj |
| 37 | about | about | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 argue | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past · passive | the platypus | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | a large amount of the sleep stage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Patient | |||||
| 3 | link | participle | the sleep stage not said here | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | dream | gerund | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | look | present | platypus's version | different property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | argue speech: disagree | present | scientists | still | about platypus | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | |||
| 7 | amount | the sleep stage | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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:17.
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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