--- title: The platypus, an odd old mammal, was reported to have a large amount… — Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats… · tree and pragmatics description: The platypus, an odd old mammal, was reported to have a large amount of the sleep stage linked to dreaming, but its version looks a bit different from ours and scientists still argue about it. Who acts: version, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats 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/17/) [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 (version, 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:17 # text = The platypus, an odd old mammal, was reported to have a large amount of the sleep stage linked to dreaming, but its version looks a bit different from ours and scientists still argue about it. # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 platypus platypus NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 mammal mammal NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 stage stage NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 linked link VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 dreaming dream VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 version version NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 ours our PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 35 still still ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 37 about about ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 39 . . 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 | **report** | past · passive | | the platypus | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | | a large amount of the sleep stage | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Patient | | 3 | **link** | participle | | the sleep stage *not said here* | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **dream** | gerund | | | | | | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **look** | present | platypus's version | | | | | different *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | scientists | | | | still | about platypus | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 7 | **amount** | | | the sleep stage | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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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