Why we sleep when ill, sentence 5
Sleeping a lot when ill is not laziness; during sleep the body repairs itself and the immune system works hard.
Who acts: body, immune system · What happens: sleep, not be, repair, work · To what, where: lot, laziness, body
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 (body, immune system), 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 | Sleeping | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 laziness | nsubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lot | det |
| 3 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sleeping | obj |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ill | advmod |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sleeping | advcl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 laziness | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 laziness | advmod |
| 8 | laziness | laziness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 laziness | punct |
| 10 | during | during | ADP | _ | 11 sleep | case |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 repairs | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 body | det |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 repairs | nsubj |
| 14 | repairs | repair | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 laziness | parataxis |
| 15 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 repairs | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 works | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 system | det |
| 18 | immune | immune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 system | compound |
| 19 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 works | nsubj |
| 20 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 repairs | conj |
| 21 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 works | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 laziness | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | gerund | a lot | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not is a | present | laziness | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | repair | present | the body | body | during sleep | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | |||
| 4 | work | present | the immune system | hard property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:5.
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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