Why we sleep when ill, sentence 1
It is like a city under attack switching off the fairground lights to send all the power to the defenders: you rest, you eat less, and the energy goes to the fight.
Who acts: system, attack, you, energy · What happens: be, switch off, send, rest, eat, go · To what, where: attack, fairground lights, power, defenders, fight
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why we sleep when ill» of the medicine 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 (system, attack, you, energy), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 city | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 city | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 city | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 attack | case |
| 7 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 city | nmod |
| 8 | switching | switch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 attack | acl |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 switching | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lights | det |
| 11 | fairground | fairground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lights | compound |
| 12 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 switching | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 send | mark |
| 14 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 switching | advcl |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 power | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 power | det |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 send | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 defenders | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 defenders | det |
| 20 | defenders | defender | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 send | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 rest | punct |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 rest | nsubj |
| 23 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 city | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 eat | punct |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 eat | nsubj |
| 26 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 rest | conj |
| 27 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 eat | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 goes | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 goes | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 energy | det |
| 31 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 goes | nsubj |
| 32 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 rest | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 fight | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 fight | det |
| 35 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 goes | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 city | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | system | attack | like a city | tree rules | |||
| 2 | switch off | gerund | attack not said here | the fairground lights | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient | ||||
| 3 | send | to-infinitive | attack not said here | all power | the defenders | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent power=Theme to defender=Destination | |||
| 4 | rest | present | you | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | eat | present | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | go | present | the energy | the fight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fight=Initial_Location |
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:medicine:031-why-we-sleep-when-ill.lesson:1.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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