--- title: It is asleep, but only with half its brain: the other half stays awa… — How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standin… · tree and pragmatics description: It is asleep, but only with half its brain: the other half stays awake to steer, come up to breathe and watch for danger. Who acts: It, other half. 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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 (It, other half), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:390-how-animals-sleep-half-asleep-dolphins-standing-horses-short-sleeping-giraffes-and-birds-that-nap-in-the-air.lesson:1 # text = It is asleep, but only with half its brain: the other half stays awake to steer, come up to breathe and watch for danger. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 390-how-animals-sleep-half-asleep-dolphins-standing-horses-short-sleeping-giraffes-and-birds-that-nap-in-the-air.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 3 obl _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 15 nsubj _ _ 15 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 16 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 steer steer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:xcomp 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 20 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | It | | | | | with half half's brain; asleep *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stay** | present | the other half | | | | | awake *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **steer** | to-infinitive | the other half *not said here* | | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come up** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **breathe** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **watch** | infinitive | | | | | | for danger | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for danger=Theme | 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:390-how-animals-sleep-half-asleep-dolphins-standing-horses-short-sleeping-giraffes-and-birds-that-nap-in-the-air.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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