Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up, sentence 14

A bat caught by a cat needs a rescuer even if it looks fine, because tiny wounds from cat teeth can become infected and kill the bat days later; cats catch many thousands of bats in Britain each year, reported.

Who acts: bat, tiny wounds, cats · What happens: catch, need, look, become, infect, kill · To what, where: bat, rescuer, many thousands, Britain

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 (bat, tiny wounds, cats), 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	2 bat	det
2	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needs	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bat	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 cat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obl
7	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rescuer	det
9	rescuer	rescuer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needs	obj
10	even	even	ADV	_	13 looks	advmod
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 looks	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looks	nsubj
13	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 needs	advcl
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 looks	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 become	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 become	mark
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wounds	amod
18	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 become	nsubj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 teeth	case
20	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 teeth	compound
21	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wounds	nmod
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 become	aux
23	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 needs	advcl
24	infected	infect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 become	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 kill	cc
26	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 become	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bat	det
28	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 days	compound
29	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 later	obl:unmarked
30	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 kill	advmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 catch	punct
32	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 catch	nsubj
33	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 needs	conj
34	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 thousands	amod
35	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 catch	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 bats	case
37	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 thousands	nmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 Britain	case
39	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 catch	obl
40	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	41 year	det
41	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 catch	obl:unmarked
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 reported	punct
43	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 catch	parataxis
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 reported	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	participle		a bat not said here			by a cat	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	need	present	a bat	a rescuer				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rescuer=Theme
3	look a condition, not said to happen	present	bat				fine property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	become	can	tiny wounds from cat teeth					tree rules
5	infect	participle	tiny wounds from cat teeth not said here					vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	kill	infinitive	tiny wounds from cat teeth not said here				late property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	catch	present	cats	many thousands of bats	Britain	year		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme
8	report	past						vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:14.

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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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