Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up, sentence 12
In Britain it is against the law to disturb roosting bats or open a bat box without a licence; trained bat workers with licences check the boxes and count the bats.
Who acts: trained bat workers · What happens: be, disturb, roost, open, train, check · To what, where: Britain, roosting bats, bat box, boxes, bats
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up» 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 (trained bat workers), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Britain | case |
| 2 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 law | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 law | expl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 law | cop |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 law | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 law | det |
| 7 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 disturb | mark |
| 9 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 law | csubj |
| 10 | roosting | roost | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 bats | amod |
| 11 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 disturb | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 open | cc |
| 13 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 disturb | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 box | det |
| 15 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 box | compound |
| 16 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 open | obj |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 19 licence | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 licence | det |
| 19 | licence | licence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 open | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 workers | punct |
| 21 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 workers | amod |
| 22 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 workers | compound |
| 23 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 law | parataxis |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 licences | case |
| 25 | licences | licence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 workers | nmod |
| 26 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 workers | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 boxes | det |
| 28 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 check | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 count | cc |
| 30 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 check | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bats | det |
| 32 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 count | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 law | 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 | Britain | against the law | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | disturb | to-infinitive | roosting bats | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bat=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | roost | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | open | infinitive | a bat box | without a licence | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme | ||||
| 5 | train | participle | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | check | infinitive | trained bat workers with licences not said here | the boxes | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | ||||
| 7 | count | infinitive | trained bat workers with licences not said here | the bats | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=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:315-bats-near-home-pipistrelles-noctules-bat-boxes-and-why-never-to-pick-one-up.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): 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.
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