Myth check: are bats blind?, sentence 13
A tiny pipistrelle, lighter than a coin, can eat around 3,000 small insects in one night.
Who acts: tiny pipistrelle · What happens: eat · To what, where: 3,000 small insects
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 (tiny pipistrelle), 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 | 3 pipistrelle | det |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pipistrelle | amod |
| 3 | pipistrelle | pipistrelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lighter | punct |
| 5 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 pipistrelle | amod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 coin | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 coin | det |
| 8 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lighter | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pipistrelle | punct |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 eat | aux |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | around | around | ADV | _ | 13 3,000 | advmod |
| 13 | 3,000 | 3000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 insects | nummod |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 insects | amod |
| 15 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 eat | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 night | nummod |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eat | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | can | a tiny pipistrelle | 3,000 small insects | night | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient |
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:13.
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 ×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.
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