Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses, sentence 20
People also learn new skills better after a good night's sleep.
Who acts: People, good night · What happens: learn, sleep · To what, where: new skills
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, good night), 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 | 3 learn | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 learn | advmod |
| 3 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 skills | amod |
| 5 | skills | skill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 learn | obj |
| 6 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 learn | advmod |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 sleep | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 night | amod |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 night | case |
| 12 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learn | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present | People | new skills | after a good night's sleep | well property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Topic | ||
| 2 | sleep | a good night | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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:20.
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): no change. 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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