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title: Children aged nine and ten need about nine to twelve hours of sleep… — Sleep and school mornings · tree and pragmatics
description: Children aged nine and ten need about nine to twelve hours of sleep a night. Who acts: Children. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep and school mornings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sleep and school mornings, sentence 20

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Children aged nine and ten need about nine to twelve hours of sleep a night.

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**Who acts:** Children · **What happens:** age, need · **To what, where:** nine

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep and school mornings» 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 (Children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:418-sleep-and-school-mornings.lesson:20
# text = Children aged nine and ten need about nine to twelve hours of sleep a night.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 418-sleep-and-school-mornings.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	aged	age	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	_
3	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
5	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **age** | participle | Children *not said here* | nine |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nine=Patient |
| 2 | **need** | present | Children |  |  |  | hour; night |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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:418-sleep-and-school-mornings.lesson:20`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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