--- title: Ducks at the edge of a sleeping row keep the outward eye open and th… — How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standin… · tree and pragmatics description: Ducks at the edge of a sleeping row keep the outward eye open and that half of the brain awake, while ducks in the middle sleep more deeply. Who acts: Ducks. A sentence of the lesson «How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air» of --- [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/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/) / [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/) / 8 # How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air, sentence 8 Ducks at the edge of a sleeping row keep the outward eye open and that half of the brain awake, while ducks in the middle sleep more deeply. **Who acts:** Ducks · **What happens:** keep, sleep · **To what, where:** outward eye 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 (Ducks), 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:8 # text = Ducks at the edge of a sleeping row keep the outward eye open and that half of the brain awake, while ducks in the middle sleep more deeply. # 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 1 Ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 outward outward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 15 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 20 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 while while SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 23 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 28 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 29 advmod _ _ 29 deeply deeply ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | Ducks at the edge of a sleeping row | the outward eye | | | | open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 2 | **sleep** | present | ducks in the middle | | | | | deeply *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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:390-how-animals-sleep-half-asleep-dolphins-standing-horses-short-sleeping-giraffes-and-birds-that-nap-in-the-air.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. **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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