--- title: Scientists reported that wild sloths sleep about nine or ten hours a… — How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standin… · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists reported that wild sloths sleep about nine or ten hours a day, not twenty; the big number came from sloths in zoos. Who acts: Scientists, wild sloths, big number. A sentence of the lesson «How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/390-how-animals-sleep-half-asleep-dolphins-standing-horses-short-sleeping-giraffes-and-birds-that-nap-in-the-air/12/) [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/) / [How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/390-how-animals-sleep-half-asleep-dolphins-standing-horses-short-sleeping-giraffes-and-birds-that-nap-in-the-air/) / 12 # How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air, sentence 12 Scientists reported that wild sloths sleep about nine or ten hours a day, not twenty; the big number came from sloths in zoos. **Who acts:** Scientists, wild sloths, big number · **What happens:** report, sleep, come · **To what, where:** zoos This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air» 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 (Scientists, wild sloths, big number), 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:12 # text = Scientists reported that wild sloths sleep about nine or ten hours a day, not twenty; the big number came from sloths in zoos. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 sloths sloth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 conj _ _ 11 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:unmarked _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 appos _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 sloths sloth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 . . 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 | **report** | past | Scientists | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **sleep** | present | wild sloths | | | | hour | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | past | the big number | | | zoos | | from sloths | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sloth=Initial\_Location | 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:12`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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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