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title: Some famous sleep facts are myths, because they came from animals in… — How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some famous sleep facts are myths, because they came from animals in zoos, which have less to do and no danger. Who acts: famous sleep facts, facts, zoos. 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
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# How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air, sentence 6

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Some famous sleep facts are myths, because they came from animals in zoos, which have less to do and no danger.

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**Who acts:** famous sleep facts, facts, zoos · **What happens:** be, come, have, do · **To what, where:** myths, less

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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 (famous sleep facts, facts, zoos), 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:6
# text = Some famous sleep facts are myths, because they came from animals in zoos, which have less to do and no 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
2	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | some famous sleep facts | myths |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | facts *= fact* |  |  |  |  | from animals in zoos | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from animal=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **have** | present | zoos | less |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:390-how-animals-sleep-half-asleep-dolphins-standing-horses-short-sleeping-giraffes-and-birds-that-nap-in-the-air.lesson:6`.

**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 ×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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