--- title: Dogs, cats, rats and birds have this busy stage too, and scientists… — Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs, cats, rats and birds have this busy stage too, and scientists have even watched sleeping rats replay a maze in their brains. Who acts: Dogs, scientists, sleeping rats. A sentence of the lesson «Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses» of the biology cours --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses, sentence 5 Dogs, cats, rats and birds have this busy stage too, and scientists have even watched sleeping rats replay a maze in their brains. **Who acts:** Dogs, scientists, sleeping rats · **What happens:** have, watch, sleep, replay · **To what, where:** busy stage, maze, brains 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 (Dogs, scientists, sleeping rats), 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:5 # text = Dogs, cats, rats and birds have this busy stage too, and scientists have even watched sleeping rats replay a maze in their brains. # 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): no change 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 8 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 10 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 stage stage NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 too too ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 16 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 even even ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 watched watch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 19 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 amod _ _ 20 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 replay replay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 maze maze NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | Dogs and cats and rats and birds | this busy stage | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stage=Patient | | 2 | **watch** | present · perfect | scientists | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sleep** | gerund | | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **replay** | infinitive | sleeping rats | a maze | | stages's brains | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maze=Theme | 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. 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:5`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, repl…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/391-do-animals-dream-twitching-dogs-replaying-rats-and-colour-changing-octopuses/4/) - next →: [Do animals dream? 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