--- title: Scientists recorded rats' brains while they ran a maze and saw the s… — Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats… · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists recorded rats' brains while they ran a maze and saw the same patterns again while the rats slept; this replay may help the brain store what was learned, but whether the rat experiences it as a dream is still argued. Who acts: Scientists, rats, replay, brain. A sentence of the lesson «Do a --- [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/12/) [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? Twitching dogs, repl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/391-do-animals-dream-twitching-dogs-replaying-rats-and-colour-changing-octopuses/) / 12 # Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses, sentence 12 Scientists recorded rats' brains while they ran a maze and saw the same patterns again while the rats slept; this replay may help the brain store what was learned, but whether the rat experiences it as a dream is still argued. **Who acts:** Scientists, rats, replay, brain, rat · **What happens:** record, run, see, sleep, help, store · **To what, where:** brains, maze, same patterns, brain · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Scientists, rats, replay, brain), 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:12 # text = Scientists recorded rats' brains while they ran a maze and saw the same patterns again while the rats slept; this replay may help the brain store what was learned, but whether the rat experiences it as a dream is still argued. # 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 ×2 1 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 recorded record VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 ' 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 while while SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 maze maze NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 patterns pattern NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 again again ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 replay replay NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 store store VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 29 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 31 obj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 34 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:case 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 experiences experience VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 csubj:pass _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 as as ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux:pass _ _ 43 still still ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 45 . . 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 | **record** | past | Scientists | rats's brains | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Theme | | 2 | **run** | past | scientists *= scientist* | a maze | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme maze=Trajectory | | 3 | **see** | past | scientists *= scientist* *not said here* | the same patterns | | | again | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pattern=Stimulus | | 4 | **sleep** | past | the rats | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **help** | may | this replay | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **store** | infinitive | the brain | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **learn** | past · passive | | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: what=Topic | | 8 | **experience** | present | the rat | brain | | | | as a dream | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 9 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | Scientists *not said here* | | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» | 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. 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