Myth check: are bats blind?, sentence 8
Real vampire bats are small, live in Central and South America, and mostly feed on the blood of cattle, horses and birds, rarely people.
Who acts: Real vampire bats · What happens: be, live, feed · To what, where: Central
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 (Real vampire 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bats | amod |
| 2 | vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bats | compound |
| 3 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 small | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 small | cop |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 live | punct |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 small | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Central | case |
| 9 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 live | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 America | cc |
| 11 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Central | conj |
| 12 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Central | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 feed | cc |
| 15 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 16 feed | advmod |
| 16 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 small | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 blood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 blood | det |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 cattle | case |
| 21 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 blood | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 horses | punct |
| 23 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cattle | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 birds | cc |
| 25 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cattle | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 people | punct |
| 27 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 28 people | advmod |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cattle | appos |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 small | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Real vampire bats | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | Real vampire bats not said here | Central and South and America | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in central=Location | ||||
| 3 | feed | present | Real vampire bats not said here | on the blood of cattle and horses and birds; mostly property | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on blood=Patient |
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:8.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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