Myth check: are bats blind?, sentence 4
Bats are not blind; all bats can see, and many see quite well.
Who acts: Bats, many · What happens: not be, see
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, many), 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 | Bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blind | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 blind | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 blind | advmod |
| 4 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 blind | punct |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 bats | det |
| 7 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 blind | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 see | nsubj |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | conj |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 well | advmod |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 see | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blind | 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 | not is | present | Bats | blind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | can | all bats | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | see | present | many | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:4.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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