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# Do animals dream? Twitching dogs, replaying rats and colour-changing octopuses, sentence 9

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Dogs and cats have the same sleep stages as people, including the busy stage linked to dreaming, when the brain is active and the eyes move under the lids.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, brain, eyes · **What happens:** have, link, dream, be, move · **To what, where:** same sleep stages, busy stage, lids

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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 (Dogs, brain, eyes), 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:9
# text = Dogs and cats have the same sleep stages as people, including the busy stage linked to dreaming, when the brain is active and the eyes move under the lids.
# 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	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	stages	stage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	including	include	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	linked	link	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	under	under	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lids	lid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Dogs and cats | the same sleep stages and the busy stage |  |  |  | as people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stage=Patient |
| 2 | **link** | participle |  | the busy stage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **dream** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | the brain |  |  |  |  | active *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **move** | present | the eyes |  |  | the lids |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme under lid=Trajectory |

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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:9`.

**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/).

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