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title: Sleepwalking happens in deep sleep, not while dreaming; children usu… — Sleep and dreams in people · tree and pragmatics
description: Sleepwalking happens in deep sleep, not while dreaming; children usually grow out of it, and waking a sleepwalker is not dangerous, just confusing, so it is best to guide them gently back to bed. Who acts: Sleepwalking, children, waking. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep and dreams in people» of the b
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# Sleep and dreams in people, sentence 11

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Sleepwalking happens in deep sleep, not while dreaming; children usually grow out of it, and waking a sleepwalker is not dangerous, just confusing, so it is best to guide them gently back to bed.

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**Who acts:** Sleepwalking, children, waking · **What happens:** happen, not dream, grow out, wake, not be, be · **To what, where:** deep sleep, Sleep, sleepwalker, Children

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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 (Sleepwalking, children, waking), 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:11
# text = Sleepwalking happens in deep sleep, not while dreaming; children usually grow out of it, and waking a sleepwalker is not dangerous, just confusing, so it is best to guide them gently back to bed.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Sleepwalking	sleepwalking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	waking	wake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sleepwalker	sleepwalker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	just	just	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	confusing	confusing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	expl	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	parataxis	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	guide	guide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advcl
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:advmod
37	back	back	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **happen** | present | Sleepwalking |  |  | deep sleep |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sleep=Location |
| 2 | **not** **dream** | gerund | Sleepwalking *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow out** | present | children | Sleep |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 4 | **wake** | gerund |  | a sleepwalker |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sleepwalker=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **is** | present | waking |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | waking *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **guide** | to-infinitive |  | Children *= child* |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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