The brain and nerves, sentence 13
Most vivid dreams happen in REM sleep, when the eyes dart about under the eyelids; everyone dreams several times a night, even if they forget.
Who acts: Most vivid dreams, eyes, everyone · What happens: happen, dart about, dream, forget · To what, where: REM sleep, eyelids
This is a sentence of the lesson «The brain and nerves» 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 (Most vivid dreams, eyes, everyone), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 dreams | amod |
| 2 | vivid | vivid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dreams | amod |
| 3 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sleep | case |
| 6 | REM | rem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sleep | compound |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happen | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dart | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 dart | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eyes | det |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dart | nsubj |
| 12 | dart | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | advcl |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 dart | advmod |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 eyelids | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 eyelids | det |
| 16 | eyelids | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dart | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 dreams | punct |
| 18 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 dreams | nsubj |
| 19 | dreams | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | parataxis |
| 20 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 times | amod |
| 21 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dreams | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 night | det |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 forget | punct |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 forget | advmod |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 forget | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 forget | nsubj |
| 28 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 dreams | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Most vivid dreams | REM sleep | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sleep=Location | ||||
| 2 | dart about | present | the eyes | the eyelids | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under eyelid=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | dream | present | everyone | time | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | forget a condition, not said to happen | present | eyes = eye | tree rules |
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:068-the-brain-and-nerves.lesson:13.
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 ×2. 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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