Myth check: are bats blind?, sentence 0
People say «as blind as a bat», but every bat can see, and big fruit bats have large eyes that work well in dim light.
Who acts: People, bat, big fruit bats, large eyes · What happens: say, see, have, work · To what, where: large eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Myth check: are bats blind?» 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 (People, bat, big fruit bats, large eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 blind | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 blind | advmod |
| 5 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 say | ccomp |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 » | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bat | det |
| 8 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 » | compound |
| 9 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blind | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 bat | det |
| 13 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 say | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bats | amod |
| 19 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bats | compound |
| 20 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | conj |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 eyes | amod |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 work | nsubj |
| 25 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 work | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 light | case |
| 28 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 light | amod |
| 29 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 work | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | People | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | can | every bat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | have | present | big fruit bats | large eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 4 | work | present | large eyes | in dim light; well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in light=Theme |
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, 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:biology:153-are-bats-blind.lesson:0.
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 ×1, 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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