Time, routines and sleep, sentence 24
Adults usually need about 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night, so children need more sleep than adults.
Who acts: Adults, children · What happens: need · To what, where: more sleep
This is a sentence of the lesson «Time, routines and sleep» of the everyday 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 (Adults, children), 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 | Adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 need | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 need | advmod |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 7 | advmod |
| 5 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 hours | nummod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 9 | case |
| 7 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 7 | nmod |
| 8 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 need | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sleep | case |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hours | nmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 need | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 need | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 need | advmod |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 need | nsubj |
| 16 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 need | parataxis |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 sleep | amod |
| 18 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 need | obj |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 adults | case |
| 20 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 need | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Adults | hour; night | usually property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | need | present | children | more sleep | than adults | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sleep=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:everyday:039-time-and-routines.lesson:24.
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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