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title: A night is made of about 4 to 6 cycles of about 90 minutes, from lig… — Sleep and dreams in people · tree and pragmatics
description: A night is made of about 4 to 6 cycles of about 90 minutes, from light sleep to deep sleep to dreaming sleep; deep sleep comes mostly early in the night and dreaming sleep gets longer towards morning. Who acts: deep sleep, dreaming sleep. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep and dreams in people» of the 
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# Sleep and dreams in people, sentence 5

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A night is made of about 4 to 6 cycles of about 90 minutes, from light sleep to deep sleep to dreaming sleep; deep sleep comes mostly early in the night and dreaming sleep gets longer towards morning.

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**Who acts:** deep sleep, dreaming sleep · **What happens:** make, dream, come, get · **To what, where:** night, light sleep

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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 (deep sleep, dreaming sleep), 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:5
# text = A night is made of about 4 to 6 cycles of about 90 minutes, from light sleep to deep sleep to dreaming sleep; deep sleep comes mostly early in the night and dreaming sleep gets longer towards morning.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	cycles	cycle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	amod	_	_
24	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
29	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	early	early	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	amod	_	_
36	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
38	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
39	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	.	.	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 | **make** | present · passive |  | a night |  | light sleep to deep sleep to dreaming sleep |  | of 4 cycles of 90 minutes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from sleep=Material |
| 2 | **dream** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | present | deep sleep |  |  |  | night | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dream** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **get** | present | dreaming sleep |  |  |  | morning | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:5`.

**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): 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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