Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses, sentence 18

People go through sleep cycles of about an hour and a half, about four or five a night, each ending in dreaming sleep, which gets longer towards morning.

Who acts: People, each, dreaming sleep · What happens: go, ending, get · To what, where: sleep cycles, dreaming 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 (People, each, dreaming sleep), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 cycles	case
4	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cycles	compound
5	cycles	cycle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 hour	case
7	about	about	ADV	_	9 hour	advmod
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hour	det
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cycles	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 half	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 half	det
12	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 hour	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 four	punct
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 four	advmod
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hour	nmod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 five	cc
17	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 four	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 night	det
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cycles	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ending	punct
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 ending	nsubj
22	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 night	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 sleep	case
24	dreaming	dreaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sleep	compound
25	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ending	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gets	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 gets	nsubj
28	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sleep	acl:relcl
29	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 gets	advmod
30	towards	towards	ADP	_	31 morning	case
31	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 longer	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	People	sleep cycles of a hour four and a half a night and ending		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through cycle=Initial_Location
2	ending		each	dreaming sleep		tree rules
3	get	present	dreaming sleep		long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:18.

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 ×2. 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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