Myth check: are bats blind?, sentence 3
Films show bats tangling in hair and vampires biting people, and Batman made the bat a dark, scary sign; real bats are shy, useful animals that eat pests, spread seeds and pollinate flowers.
Who acts: Films, bats, Batman, real bats, useful animals · What happens: show, tangle, bite, make, be, eat · To what, where: bats, hair, people, bat, pests, seeds
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 (Films, bats, Batman, real 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 | Films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | nsubj |
| 2 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | obj |
| 4 | tangling | tangle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 bats | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hair | case |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tangling | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 vampires | cc |
| 8 | vampires | vampire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hair | conj |
| 9 | biting | bite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 tangling | advcl |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 biting | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 13 | Batman | Batman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 show | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bat | det |
| 16 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sign | det |
| 18 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sign | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dark | punct |
| 20 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sign | amod |
| 21 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 shy | punct |
| 23 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bats | amod |
| 24 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 shy | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 shy | cop |
| 26 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sign | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 animals | punct |
| 28 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 animals | amod |
| 29 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bats | appos |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 eat | nsubj |
| 31 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 animals | acl:relcl |
| 32 | pests | pest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 eat | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 spread | punct |
| 34 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 eat | conj |
| 35 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 spread | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 pollinate | cc |
| 37 | pollinate | pollinate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 eat | conj |
| 38 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 pollinate | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 show | 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 | show | present | Films | bats | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bat=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | tangle | gerund | bats not said here | hair and vampires | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bite | gerund | bats not said here | people | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Batman | the bat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset bat=Beneficiary sign=Product | ||||
| 5 | is | present | real bats | shy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | eat | present | useful animals | pests | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pest=Patient | ||||
| 7 | spread | present | useful animals not said here | seeds | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme | ||||
| 8 | pollinate | present | useful animals not said here | flowers | 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:3.
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): R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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