Myth check: are bats blind?, sentence 17
In China bats have long been a sign of good luck, because the word for bat sounds like the word for good fortune.
Who acts: bats, word · What happens: have, be, sound · To what, where: China, sign
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, word), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 China | case |
| 2 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obl |
| 3 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 sign | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 sign | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sign | det |
| 8 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | parataxis |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 luck | case |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 luck | amod |
| 11 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sign | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 sounds | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 word | det |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sounds | nsubj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 sounds | case |
| 17 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 word | nmod |
| 18 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | advcl |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 word | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 word | det |
| 21 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sounds | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 fortune | case |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fortune | amod |
| 24 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 word | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | 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 | have | present | bats | China | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | participle | a sign | of good luck; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sound | present | the word bat | like the word for good fortune | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:17.
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): no change. 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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