Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers, sentence 13
A vampire bat that misses its meal for about two nights can starve; roost-mates that fed bring up blood to share, often with bats that shared with them before.
Who acts: vampire bat, roost mates, bats · What happens: miss, starve, feed, bring up, share · To what, where: meal, blood
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, roost mates, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bat | det |
| 2 | vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bat | compound |
| 3 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 misses | nsubj |
| 5 | misses | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bat | acl:relcl |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 meal | nmod:poss |
| 7 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 misses | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 nights | case |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 two | advmod |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 nights | nummod |
| 11 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 misses | obl |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 starve | aux |
| 13 | starve | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 misses | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 mates | punct |
| 15 | roost | roost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mates | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 roost | punct |
| 17 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bat | conj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 fed | nsubj |
| 19 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 mates | acl:relcl |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bat | parataxis |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 bring | compound:prt |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 share | mark |
| 24 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bring | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bats | punct |
| 26 | often | often | ADV | _ | 24 share | advmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 bats | case |
| 28 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 share | obl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 shared | nsubj |
| 30 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 bats | acl:relcl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 shared | obl |
| 33 | before | before | ADV | _ | 30 shared | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bat | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | present | a vampire bat and roost mates | cut's meal | night | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | starve | can | a vampire bat and roost mates not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | feed | past | roost mates | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bring up | infinitive | blood | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | |||||
| 5 | share | to-infinitive | with bats; often property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | share | past | bats | with Bats = bat; before property | tree rules |
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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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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