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title: Adults usually need about 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night, so children… — Time, routines and sleep · tree and pragmatics
description: Adults usually need about 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night, so children need more sleep than adults. Who acts: Adults, children. A sentence of the lesson «Time, routines and sleep» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Time, routines and sleep, sentence 24

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Adults usually need about 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night, so children need more sleep than adults.

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**Who acts:** Adults, children · **What happens:** need · **To what, where:** more sleep

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Time, routines and sleep» of the everyday 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 (Adults, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:039-time-and-routines.lesson:24
# text = Adults usually need about 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night, so children need more sleep than adults.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 039-time-and-routines.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	Adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
8	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	.	.	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 | Adults |  |  |  | hour; night | usually *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **need** | present | children | more sleep |  |  |  | than adults | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sleep=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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**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:everyday:039-time-and-routines.lesson:24`.

**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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