Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses, sentence 7
Scientists look for clues instead: brain patterns, moving eyes, twitching legs and changing colours.
Who acts: Scientists · What happens: look, move, twitch, change · To what, where: brain patterns, eyes, legs, colours
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 (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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 clues | case |
| 4 | clues | clue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | obl |
| 5 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 2 look | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| 7 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 patterns | compound |
| 8 | patterns | pattern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 moving | punct |
| 10 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 patterns | conj |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 moving | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 twitching | punct |
| 13 | twitching | twitch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 look | advcl |
| 14 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 twitching | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 changing | cc |
| 16 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 twitching | conj |
| 17 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 changing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | 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 | look | present | Scientists | brain patterns | for clues; instead property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for clue=Theme | |||
| 2 | move | gerund | Scientists not said here | eyes | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | twitch | gerund | Scientists not said here | legs | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 4 | change | gerund | Scientists not said here | colours | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=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:7.
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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