Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish, sentence 9

No bat is blind; fruit bats see well, and many small bats also find insects in the dark by listening to the echoes of their own calls, which is called echolocation.

Who acts: bat, fruit bats, many small bats, lemmings · What happens: be, see, find, listen, call · To what, where: insects, dark, own calls · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish» 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 (bat, fruit bats, many small bats, lemmings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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