--- title: During this busy sleep a part of the brain stops the body acting out… — Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats… · tree and pragmatics description: During this busy sleep a part of the brain stops the body acting out the dream, so a sleeping dog or cat only twitches, paddles or makes small sounds. Who acts: part, sleeping dog. A sentence of the lesson «Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses» of the biolog --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/391-do-animals-dream-twitching-dogs-replaying-rats-and-colour-changing-octopuses/10/) [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/) / [Do animals dream? 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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 (part, sleeping dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:391-do-animals-dream-twitching-dogs-replaying-rats-and-colour-changing-octopuses.lesson:10 # text = During this busy sleep a part of the brain stops the body acting out the dream, so a sleeping dog or cat only twitches, paddles or makes small sounds. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 391-do-animals-dream-twitching-dogs-replaying-rats-and-colour-changing-octopuses.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 During during ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 3 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 acting act VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 twitches twitch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 paddles paddle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 30 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | present | a part of the brain | the body | | | during this busy sleep | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality body=Eventuality | | 2 | **act out** | gerund | a part of the brain *not said here* | the dream | | | | | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent dream=Eventuality | | 3 | **twitch** | present | a sleeping dog or cat | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **paddle** | present | a sleeping dog or cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | present | a sleeping dog or cat *not said here* | small sounds | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product | 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:391-do-animals-dream-twitching-dogs-replaying-rats-and-colour-changing-octopuses.lesson:10`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, repl…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/391-do-animals-dream-twitching-dogs-replaying-rats-and-colour-changing-octopuses/9/) - next →: [Do animals dream? 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