Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses, sentence 5
Dogs, cats, rats and birds have this busy stage too, and scientists have even watched sleeping rats replay a maze in their brains.
Who acts: Dogs, scientists, sleeping rats · What happens: have, watch, sleep, replay · To what, where: busy stage, maze, brains
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 (Dogs, scientists, sleeping rats), 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 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cats | punct |
| 3 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dogs | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rats | punct |
| 5 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dogs | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 birds | cc |
| 7 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dogs | conj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 stage | det |
| 10 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stage | amod |
| 11 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 have | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 watched | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 watched | cc |
| 15 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 watched | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 watched | aux |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 watched | advmod |
| 18 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 have | conj |
| 19 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 rats | amod |
| 20 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 replay | nsubj |
| 21 | replay | replay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 watched | xcomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 maze | det |
| 23 | maze | maze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 replay | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 brains | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 brains | nmod:poss |
| 26 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 replay | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Dogs and cats and rats and birds | this busy stage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stage=Patient | ||||
| 2 | watch | present · perfect | scientists | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sleep | gerund | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | replay | infinitive | sleeping rats | a maze | stages's brains | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maze=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:5.
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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