Why we sleep when ill, sentence 6
Children who regularly sleep well tend to catch fewer infections, though sleep doesn't cure everything.
Who acts: Children, sleep · What happens: sleep, tend, catch, not cure · To what, where: fewer infections, everything
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 (Children, sleep), 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 | 6 tend | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 sleep | nsubj |
| 3 | regularly | regularly | ADV | _ | 4 sleep | advmod |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Children | acl:relcl |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 sleep | advmod |
| 6 | tend | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 catch | mark |
| 8 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tend | xcomp |
| 9 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 infections | amod |
| 10 | infections | infection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 catch | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cure | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 16 cure | mark |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cure | nsubj |
| 14 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 cure | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 cure | advmod |
| 16 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tend | advcl |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 cure | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tend | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | Children | regularly, well property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tend | present | Children | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | Children not said here | fewer infections | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not cure | present · do-support | sleep | everything | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer everything=Source |
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:6.
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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