Myth check: are bats blind?, sentence 7

Bats do not get tangled in people's hair; they are very good at avoiding obstacles and may fly close only to catch insects around people.

Who acts: hair · What happens: not tangle, be, avoid, fly, catch · To what, where: Bats, hair, obstacles, 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 (hair), 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	5 tangled	nsubj:pass
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tangled	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tangled	advmod
4	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 tangled	aux:pass
5	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 hair	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hair	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 people	case
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tangled	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 good	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 good	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 good	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 good	advmod
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tangled	parataxis
15	at	at	SCONJ	_	16 avoiding	mark
16	avoiding	avoid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 good	advcl
17	obstacles	obstacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 avoiding	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fly	cc
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 fly	aux
20	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 avoiding	conj
21	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 fly	advmod
22	only	only	ADV	_	24 catch	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 catch	mark
24	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fly	advcl
25	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 catch	obj
26	around	around	ADP	_	27 people	case
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 catch	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tangled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not tangle	present · passive · do-support		Bats	people's hair		tree rules
2	is	present	hair			good property	tree rules
3	avoid	gerund	hair not said here	obstacles			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent obstacle=Location
4	fly	may	hair not said here			close property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	catch	to-infinitive	hair not said here	insects		around people	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme

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:7.

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 ×2, 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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