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title: Snoring is the noise of air rattling soft parts of the throat in sle… — Screens, diets, sofas and late nights · tree and pragmatics
description: Snoring is the noise of air rattling soft parts of the throat in sleep; couples sometimes sleep apart just to get a good night's rest. Who acts: Snoring, noise, couples. A sentence of the lesson «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, sentence 14

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Snoring is the noise of air rattling soft parts of the throat in sleep; couples sometimes sleep apart just to get a good night's rest.

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**Who acts:** Snoring, noise, couples · **What happens:** be, rattle, sleep, get · **To what, where:** noise, soft parts, sleep, rest

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights» of the adult life 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 (Snoring, noise, couples), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:029-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights.lesson:14
# text = Snoring is the noise of air rattling soft parts of the throat in sleep; couples sometimes sleep apart just to get a good night's rest.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 029-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Snoring	snoring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	rattling	rattle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
8	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	couples	couple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
19	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:amod
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Snoring | the noise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rattle** | gerund | the noise *not said here* | soft parts of the throat |  | sleep |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** | present | couples |  |  |  |  | apart, sometimes *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | couples *not said here* | a good night's rest |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rest=Stimulus |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:029-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights.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 ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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