--- title: A dolphin sleeps with half its brain at a time and keeps coming up t… — The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from le… · tree and pragmatics description: A dolphin sleeps with half its brain at a time and keeps coming up to breathe, with one eye open controlled by the awake half; ducks at the edge of a sleeping row can do the same. Who acts: dolphin, ducks. 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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 (dolphin, ducks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.lesson:17 # text = A dolphin sleeps with half its brain at a time and keeps coming up to breathe, with one eye open controlled by the awake half; ducks at the edge of a sleeping row can do the same. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sleeps sleep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 7 det:predet _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 xcomp _ _ 14 up up ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 open open NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 controlled control VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:acl 23 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 22 obl:agent _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 28 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 36 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** | present | a dolphin | dolphin's brain | | | time | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **keep** | present | a dolphin *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **come up** | gerund | a dolphin *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **breathe** | to-infinitive | a dolphin *not said here* | | | | | with eye open | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **control** | participle | a dolphin *not said here* | | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **do** | can | ducks at the edge of a sleeping row | the same | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | 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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