--- title: A night is like a ride on a slow wave: you sink from light sleep int… — Sleep and dreams in people · tree and pragmatics description: A night is like a ride on a slow wave: you sink from light sleep into deep sleep, rise into dreaming sleep, and do it all again, about every 90 minutes. Who acts: night, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, 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:1 # text = A night is like a ride on a slow wave: you sink from light sleep into deep sleep, rise into dreaming sleep, and do it all again, about every 90 minutes. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ride ride NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 sink sink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 rise rise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 dreaming dream VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 24 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 28 nmod:unmarked _ _ 30 again again ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 about about ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 34 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a night | | | a slow wave | | like a ride | tree rules | | 2 | **sink** | present | you | | | light sleep | | into deep sleep | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **rise** | present | you *not said here* | | | dreaming sleep | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into sleep=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **dream** | gerund | | | | | | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Sleep | | | again; minute | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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](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:1`. **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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Sleep and dreams in people, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people/0/) - next →: [Sleep and dreams in people, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people/)