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description: People go through sleep cycles of about an hour and a half, about four or five a night, each ending in dreaming sleep, which gets longer towards morning. Who acts: People, each, dreaming sleep. A sentence of the lesson «Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses» 
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# Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses, sentence 18

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People go through sleep cycles of about an hour and a half, about four or five a night, each ending in dreaming sleep, which gets longer towards morning.

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**Who acts:** People, each, dreaming sleep · **What happens:** go, ending, get · **To what, where:** sleep cycles, dreaming 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 (People, each, dreaming sleep), 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:18
# text = People go through sleep cycles of about an hour and a half, about four or five a night, each ending in dreaming sleep, which gets longer towards morning.
# 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 ×2
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cycles	cycle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	9	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
15	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:det
22	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	dreaming	dreaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
30	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | People |  |  | sleep cycles of a hour  four and a half  a night and ending |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through cycle=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ending** |  | each |  |  | dreaming sleep |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | present | dreaming sleep |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:18`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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