--- title: Octopuses have a quiet sleep and a short active sleep, when their co… — Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats… · tree and pragmatics description: Octopuses have a quiet sleep and a short active sleep, when their colours flash and their arms twitch; some scientists think this might be a bit like dreaming, but it is still argued. Who acts: Octopuses, colours, arms, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replayin --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses, sentence 14 Octopuses have a quiet sleep and a short active sleep, when their colours flash and their arms twitch; some scientists think this might be a bit like dreaming, but it is still argued. **Who acts:** Octopuses, colours, arms, scientists, this · **What happens:** have, flash, twitch, think, be, dream · **To what, where:** quiet sleep, bit, sleep · **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 (Octopuses, colours, arms, scientists), 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:14 # text = Octopuses have a quiet sleep and a short active sleep, when their colours flash and their arms twitch; some scientists think this might be a bit like dreaming, but it 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Octopuses octopus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 active active ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 flash flash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 twitch twitch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 24 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ _ 25 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 ccomp _ _ 29 like like SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 30 dreaming dream VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 35 still still ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 37 . . 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 | **have** | present | Octopuses | a quiet sleep and a short active sleep | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient | | 2 | **flash** | present | Octopuses's colours | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **twitch** | present | Octopuses's arms | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | some scientists | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | might | this | a bit | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **dream** | gerund | | | | | | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | | sleep | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | 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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