Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up, sentence 4
British bats raise one baby a year in summer roosts in roofs and trees, and sleep through winter in cold places.
Who acts: British bats · What happens: raise, sleep · To what, where: one baby, summer roosts, cold places
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 (British 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 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bats | amod |
| 2 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 raise | nsubj |
| 3 | raise | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 baby | nummod |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raise | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raise | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 roosts | case |
| 9 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roosts | compound |
| 10 | roosts | roost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 raise | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 roofs | case |
| 12 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 roosts | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 trees | cc |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 roofs | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sleep | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sleep | cc |
| 17 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 raise | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 winter | case |
| 19 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sleep | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 places | case |
| 21 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 places | amod |
| 22 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sleep | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raise | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | present | British bats | one baby | summer roosts in roofs and trees | year | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in roost=Destination | ||
| 2 | sleep | present | British bats not said here | cold places | winter | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=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:4.
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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