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title: A very tired brain can switch off for a second or two, called a micr… — Gaming nights and the morning after · tree and pragmatics
description: A very tired brain can switch off for a second or two, called a microsleep, even with the eyes open. Who acts: tired brain. A sentence of the lesson «Gaming nights and the morning after» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gaming nights and the morning after, sentence 14

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A very tired brain can switch off for a second or two, called a microsleep, even with the eyes open.

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**Who acts:** tired brain · **What happens:** switch off, call · **To what, where:** microsleep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gaming nights and the morning after» of the medicine 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 (tired brain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:057-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after.lesson:14
# text = A very tired brain can switch off for a second or two, called a microsleep, even with the eyes open.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 057-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	switch	switch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	microsleep	microsleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **switch off** | can | a tired brain |  |  |  | second |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a tired brain *not said here* | a microsleep |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent microsleep=Recipient |

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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): 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.

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