--- title: Babies spend about half their sleep in REM, grown-ups only about a f… — Sleep and dreams in people · tree and pragmatics description: Babies spend about half their sleep in REM, grown-ups only about a fifth. Who acts: Babies. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep and dreams in people» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Sleep and dreams in people](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people/) / 8 # Sleep and dreams in people, sentence 8 Babies spend about half their sleep in REM, grown-ups only about a fifth. **Who acts:** Babies · **What happens:** spend, grow, sleep · **To what, where:** sleep, REM 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 (Babies), 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:8 # text = Babies spend about half their sleep in REM, grown-ups only about a fifth. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spend spend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 4 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 6 det:predet _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 REM rem NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 12 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 fifth fifth NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | present | Babies | Babies's sleep | | REM | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Asset | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sleep** | | Babies *= baby* | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:8`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people/7/) - next →: [Sleep and dreams in people, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people/)