--- title: Scientists look for clues instead: brain patterns, moving eyes, twit… — Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats… · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists look for clues instead: brain patterns, moving eyes, twitching legs and changing colours. Who acts: Scientists. 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 with its dependency tree --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses, sentence 7 Scientists look for clues instead: brain patterns, moving eyes, twitching legs and changing colours. **Who acts:** Scientists · **What happens:** look, move, twitch, change · **To what, where:** brain patterns, eyes, legs, colours 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 (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:7 # text = Scientists look for clues instead: brain patterns, moving eyes, twitching legs and changing colours. # 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 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 instead instead ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 7 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 patterns pattern NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 11 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 twitching twitch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 14 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 changing change VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 17 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | Scientists | brain patterns | | | | for clues; instead *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for clue=Theme | | 2 | **move** | gerund | Scientists *not said here* | eyes | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 3 | **twitch** | gerund | Scientists *not said here* | legs | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 4 | **change** | gerund | Scientists *not said here* | colours | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=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. 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:7`. **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): R5-strong ×1. **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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/391-do-animals-dream-twitching-dogs-replaying-rats-and-colour-changing-octopuses/6/) - next →: [Do animals dream? 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