Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses, sentence 3
In one stage the brain is very busy, the eyes flick about under the lids and the body twitches.
Who acts: brain, eyes, body · What happens: be, flick, twitch · To what, where: one stage, lids
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 (brain, eyes, body), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 stage | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 stage | nummod |
| 3 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 busy | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brain | det |
| 5 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 busy | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 busy | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 busy | advmod |
| 8 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flick | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eyes | det |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flick | nsubj |
| 12 | flick | flick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 busy | parataxis |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 flick | advmod |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 lids | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lids | det |
| 16 | lids | lid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flick | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 twitches | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 body | det |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 twitches | nsubj |
| 20 | twitches | twitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 flick | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the brain | one stage | busy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | flick | present | the eyes | the lids | about property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent under lid=Destination | |||
| 3 | twitch | present | the body | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=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:3.
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 ×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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