Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up, sentence 18

Bats do not get tangled in people's hair; a bat swooping near your head is most likely catching insects flying around you, and its echoes can dodge a thread.

Who acts: bat, insects, echoes · What happens: not tangle, swoop, catch, fly, dodge · To what, where: Bats, hair, head, insects, thread

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, insects, echoes), 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	Bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tangled	nsubj:pass
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tangled	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tangled	advmod
4	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 tangled	aux:pass
5	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 hair	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hair	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 people	case
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tangled	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 tangled	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bat	det
12	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 catching	nsubj
13	swooping	swoop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 bat	acl
14	near	near	ADP	_	16 head	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swooping	obl
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 insects	aux
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 likely	advmod
19	likely	likely	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 catching	advmod
20	catching	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 tangled	parataxis
21	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 catching	obj
22	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 insects	acl
23	around	around	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 flying	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dodge	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dodge	cc
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 echoes	nmod:poss
28	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 dodge	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 dodge	aux
30	dodge	dodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 catching	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 thread	det
32	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dodge	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tangled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not tangle	present · passive · do-support		Bats	people's hair		tree rules
2	swoop	gerund	a bat not said here		your head		tree rules
3	catch	gerund	a bat	insects		likely property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme
4	fly	gerund	insects not said here			around you	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around you=Location
5	dodge	can	head's echoes	a thread			vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent thread=Location

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:18.

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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