Myth check: are bats blind?, sentence 14

Some bats feed on fruit and nectar and, like bees, carry pollen between flowers and spread seeds; the wild ancestors of bananas and the agave are pollinated by bats.

Who acts: bats · What happens: feed, carry, spread, pollinate · To what, where: pollen, seeds, wild ancestors

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 (bats), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 bats	det
2	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feed	nsubj
3	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 fruit	case
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nectar	cc
7	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fruit	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 carry	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 and	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 bees	case
11	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 carry	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bees	punct
13	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feed	conj
14	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carry	obj
15	between	between	ADP	_	16 flowers	case
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 carry	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spread	cc
18	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 carry	conj
19	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 spread	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 pollinated	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ancestors	det
22	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ancestors	amod
23	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 pollinated	nsubj:pass
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 bananas	case
25	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ancestors	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 agave	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 agave	det
28	agave	agave	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bananas	conj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 pollinated	aux:pass
30	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 feed	conj
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 bats	case
32	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 pollinated	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feed	present	some bats		on fruit and nectar	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on fruit=Patient
2	carry	present	some bats not said here	pollen	like bees; between flowers	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme
3	spread	present	some bats not said here	seeds		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme
4	pollinate	present · passive	bats	the wild ancestors of bananas and the agave		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:14.

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. 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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