Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers, sentence 2

There are more than 1,400 kinds, about one in five of all mammal kinds, from flying foxes with wings as wide as a grown-up's arms to a bat as light as two paper clips.

Who acts: 1,400 kinds · What happens: be, fly, grow · To what, where: light

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 (1,400 kinds), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	5 1,400	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	3 more	fixed
5	1,400	1,400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 kinds	nummod
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 five	punct
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 one	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 five	compound
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 five	case
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 kinds	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 kinds	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 kinds	det
14	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kinds	compound
15	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 five	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flying	punct
17	from	from	SCONJ	_	19 foxes	mark
18	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 foxes	amod
19	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kinds	nmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 wings	case
21	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 foxes	nmod
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 wide	advmod
23	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wings	amod
24	as	as	ADP	_	30 arms	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 up	det
26	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 up	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 grown	punct
28	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 arms	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 up	case
30	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wide	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 bat	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bat	det
33	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 arms	nmod
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 light	advmod
35	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flying	obl
36	as	as	ADP	_	39 clips	case
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 clips	nummod
38	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 clips	compound
39	clips	clip	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 light	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	does	present	1,400 kinds flying foxes with wings		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	gerund		light		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers.lesson:2.

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 ×3, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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