Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers, sentence 12

Vampire bat spit stops blood going thick and sticky, so the cut keeps flowing, and scientists have studied it to make new medicines.

Who acts: Vampire bat spit, blood, cut, scientists · What happens: stop, go, keep, flow, study, make · To what, where: blood, cut, new medicines

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers» 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 (Vampire bat spit, blood, cut, scientists), 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	Vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spit	compound
2	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spit	compound
3	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	nsubj
4	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	obj
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 blood	acl
7	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 going	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sticky	cc
9	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thick	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 keeps	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 keeps	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cut	det
13	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keeps	nsubj
14	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stops	conj
15	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 keeps	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 studied	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 studied	cc
18	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 studied	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 studied	aux
20	studied	study	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 stops	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 studied	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 studied	advcl
24	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 medicines	amod
25	medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 make	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stops	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Vampire bat spit	blood		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality blood=Eventuality
2	go	gerund	blood not said here		thick property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	present	the cut			tree rules
4	flow	gerund	the cut not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	study	present · perfect	scientists	cut		vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
6	make	to-infinitive	scientists not said here	new medicines		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset medicine=Product

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:314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers.lesson:12.

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.

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