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title: Every animal needs rest, but they rest in amazing ways: dolphins sle… — Sleep and hibernation · tree and pragmatics
description: Every animal needs rest, but they rest in amazing ways: dolphins sleep with half their brain, giraffes nap standing up, bats sleep upside down, and koalas sleep most of the day. Who acts: animal, they, dolphins, giraffes. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep and hibernation» of the biology course of Mova
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# Sleep and hibernation, sentence 0

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Every animal needs rest, but they rest in amazing ways: dolphins sleep with half their brain, giraffes nap standing up, bats sleep upside down, and koalas sleep most of the day.

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**Who acts:** animal, they, dolphins, giraffes, bats, koalas · **What happens:** need, rest, sleep, nap, stand up, sleep down · **To what, where:** rest, amazing ways, upside, most

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep and hibernation» 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 (animal, they, dolphins, giraffes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:055-sleep-and-hibernation.lesson:0
# text = Every animal needs rest, but they rest in amazing ways: dolphins sleep with half their brain, giraffes nap standing up, bats sleep upside down, and koalas sleep most of the day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 055-sleep-and-hibernation.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 ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	18	det:predet	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	nap	nap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	advcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	koalas	koala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | every animal | rest |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=Theme |
| 2 | **rest** | present | they |  |  | amazing ways |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 3 | **sleep** | present | dolphins |  |  |  |  | with dolphins's brain | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **nap** | present | giraffes |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stand up** | gerund | giraffes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sleep down** | present | bats | upside |  |  |  | down *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Theme |
| 7 | **sleep** | present | koalas | most of the day |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme |

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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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**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 ×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.

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