--- title: Children aged 6 to 12 need about 9 to 12 hours a night, teenagers ab… — Sleep and the body clock · tree and pragmatics description: Children aged 6 to 12 need about 9 to 12 hours a night, teenagers about 8 to 10, adults about 7 to 9, and newborn babies 14 to 17 hours, in short pieces. Who acts: Children. 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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 (Children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:127-sleep-and-the-body-clock.lesson:3 # text = Children aged 6 to 12 need about 9 to 12 hours a night, teenagers about 8 to 10, adults about 7 to 9, and newborn babies 14 to 17 hours, in short pieces. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 127-sleep-and-the-body-clock.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 Children Children NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 aged age VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 acl _ _ 3 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod _ _ 6 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 8 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:case 10 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 teenagers teenager NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nmod _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 23 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nmod _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 newborn newborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 30 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 flat _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:case 32 17 17 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **age** | participle | | Children and teenagers 8 to 10 and adults 7 to 9 and newborn babies *not said here* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **need** | present | Children and teenagers 8 to 10 and adults 7 to 9 and newborn babies | | | short pieces | hour; night | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:127-sleep-and-the-body-clock.lesson:3`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Sleep and the body clock, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/127-sleep-and-the-body-clock/2/) - next →: [Sleep and the body clock, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/127-sleep-and-the-body-clock/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/127-sleep-and-the-body-clock/)