Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses, sentence 9
Dogs and cats have the same sleep stages as people, including the busy stage linked to dreaming, when the brain is active and the eyes move under the lids.
Who acts: Dogs, brain, eyes · What happens: have, link, dream, be, move · To what, where: same sleep stages, busy 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 (Dogs, brain, eyes), 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 | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 cats | cc |
| 3 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dogs | conj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stages | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stages | amod |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stages | compound |
| 8 | stages | stage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stages | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stage | punct |
| 12 | including | include | ADP | _ | 15 stage | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stage | det |
| 14 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stage | amod |
| 15 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stages | conj |
| 16 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 stage | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 dreaming | case |
| 18 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 linked | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 active | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 active | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 brain | det |
| 22 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 active | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 active | cop |
| 24 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dreaming | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 move | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 eyes | det |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 move | nsubj |
| 28 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 active | conj |
| 29 | under | under | ADP | _ | 31 lids | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lids | det |
| 31 | lids | lid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 move | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | 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 | have | present | Dogs and cats | the same sleep stages and the busy stage | as people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stage=Patient | |||
| 2 | link | participle | the busy stage not said here | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | dream | gerund | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | the brain | active property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | move | present | the eyes | the lids | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme under lid=Trajectory |
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:9.
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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