Myth check: are bats blind?, sentence 11
A bat's wing is its hand: long finger bones hold out thin stretchy skin, and the thumb is a little free hook.
Who acts: wing, long finger bones, thumb · What happens: be, hold out · To what, where: hand, thin stretchy skin, little free hook
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 (wing, long finger bones, thumb), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bat | det |
| 2 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wing | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 bat | case |
| 4 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hand | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hand | cop |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 hold | punct |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bones | amod |
| 10 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bones | compound |
| 11 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hold | nsubj |
| 12 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hand | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 hold | compound:prt |
| 14 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 skin | amod |
| 15 | stretchy | stretchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 skin | amod |
| 16 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hold | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hold | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hook | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 thumb | det |
| 20 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hook | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 hook | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hook | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hook | amod |
| 24 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hook | amod |
| 25 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hold | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hand | punct |
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 | is a | present | a bat's wing | bat's hand | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold out | present | long finger bones | thin stretchy skin | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the thumb | a little free hook | tree rules |
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:11.
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. 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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