"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 14
Children of 9 or 10 need about 9 to 11 hours of sleep a night to grow and learn.
Who acts: Children · What happens: need, grow, learn
This is a sentence of the lesson «"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons» of the world 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 | 6 need | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 9 | case |
| 3 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Children | nmod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 10 | cc |
| 5 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 9 | conj |
| 6 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 9 | advmod |
| 8 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 hours | nummod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 11 | case |
| 10 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 hours | nummod |
| 11 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 need | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sleep | case |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hours | nmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sleep | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 grow | mark |
| 17 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 need | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 learn | cc |
| 19 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 grow | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 9 | hour | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | grow | to-infinitive | Children of 9 not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | learn | infinitive | Children of 9 not said here | vn learn-14-1 «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:world:163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons.lesson:14.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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