Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals, sentence 13
Children of 6 to 12 years need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep a night.
Who acts: Children · What happens: need
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals» 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 (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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 need | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 3 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 12 | case |
| 5 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 6 | nmod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Children | nmod |
| 7 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 9 | advmod |
| 9 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 hours | nummod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 12 | case |
| 11 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 9 | nmod |
| 12 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 need | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sleep | case |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hours | nmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 need | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | Children of 6 years | hour; night | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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:009-body-signals.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): 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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