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title: Sleep is not the body switching off: it is a busy night shift when y… — Sleep and dreams in people · tree and pragmatics
description: Sleep is not the body switching off: it is a busy night shift when you grow, mend muscles, fight germs and store what you learned that day. Who acts: Sleep, body, you. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep and dreams in people» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Sleep and dreams in people, sentence 0

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Sleep is not the body switching off: it is a busy night shift when you grow, mend muscles, fight germs and store what you learned that day.

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**Who acts:** Sleep, body, you · **What happens:** switch off, be, grow, mend, fight, store · **To what, where:** busy night shift, muscles, germs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep and dreams in people» of the biology 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 (Sleep, body, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people.lesson:0
# text = Sleep is not the body switching off: it is a busy night shift when you grow, mend muscles, fight germs and store what you learned that day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	switching	switch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	shift	shift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	mend	mend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:parataxis
20	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
22	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	store	store	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	obj	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
29	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **switch off** | present · progressive | Sleep |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | body | a busy night shift |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **mend** | present | you *not said here* | muscles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fight** | present | you *not said here* | germs |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **store** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **learn** | past | you |  |  |  | day |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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:biology:363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people.lesson:0`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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.

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

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