--- title: In 2022 scientists reported that baby jumping spiders resting at nig… — Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats… · tree and pragmatics description: In 2022 scientists reported that baby jumping spiders resting at night move the eye tubes inside their heads and twitch their legs, a bit like the dreaming stage in mammals; whether spiders dream is an open question. Who acts: scientists, baby jumping spiders, spiders. 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/15/) [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 (scientists, baby jumping spiders, spiders), 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:15 # text = In 2022 scientists reported that baby jumping spiders resting at night move the eye tubes inside their heads and twitch their legs, a bit like the dreaming stage in mammals; whether spiders dream is an open question. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2022 2022 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 3 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 6 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 jumping jump VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_ 8 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 9 resting rest VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 acl _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 tubes tube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 inside inside ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 twitch twitch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 dreaming dream VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 amod _ _ 29 stage stage NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 dream dream VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 csubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | past | scientists | | | 2022 | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **jump** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **rest** | gerund | baby jumping spiders *not said here* | | | | night | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **move** | present | baby jumping spiders | the eye tubes | | scientists's heads | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tube=Theme | | 5 | **twitch** | present | baby jumping spiders *not said here* | scientists's legs | | | | like the dreaming stage in mammals; a bit *obl:unmarked* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 6 | **dream** | gerund | | | | | | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **dream** | present | spiders | | | | | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **be** *speech: other* | present | | a open question | | | | | tree rules | 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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