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title: Kittens and puppies spend even more time in this busy sleep than gro… — Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kittens and puppies spend even more time in this busy sleep than grown-up cats and dogs. Who acts: Kittens. A sentence of the lesson «Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses, sentence 11

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Kittens and puppies spend even more time in this busy sleep than grown-up cats and dogs.

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**Who acts:** Kittens · **What happens:** spend, grow · **To what, where:** busy sleep

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses» 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 (Kittens), 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:11
# text = Kittens and puppies spend even more time in this busy sleep than grown-up cats and dogs.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Kittens	kitten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	puppies	puppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	spend	spend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound	_	_
16	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **spend** | present | Kittens and puppies |  |  | this busy sleep than grown cats and dogs | time |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:391-do-animals-dream-twitching-dogs-replaying-rats-and-colour-changing-octopuses.lesson:11`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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