--- title: Fish rest by slowing down and hovering still; they have no eyelids,… — How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standin… · tree and pragmatics description: Fish rest by slowing down and hovering still; they have no eyelids, so their eyes stay open, and some parrotfish sleep in a bubble of slime. Who acts: Fish, eyes, parrotfish. 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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 (Fish, eyes, parrotfish), 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:15 # text = Fish rest by slowing down and hovering still; they have no eyelids, so their eyes stay open, and some parrotfish sleep in a bubble of slime. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Fish Fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 rest rest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 by by SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 4 slowing slow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 5 down down ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 hovering hover VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 8 still still ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 eyelids eyelid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 parrotfish parrotfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bubble bubble NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 slime slime NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . 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 | **rest** | present | Fish | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **slow down** | gerund | Fish *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **hover** | gerund | Fish *not said here* | | | | still | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | Fish | no eyelids | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient | | 5 | **stay** | present | Fish's eyes | | | | | open *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **sleep** | present | some parrotfish | | | a bubble of slime | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bubble=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:15`. **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 ×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. 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