Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up, sentence 5
Because they lose roosts easily, the law protects them and their roosts.
Who acts: places, law · What happens: lose, protect · To what, where: roosts
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 (places, law), 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 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 3 lose | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lose | nsubj |
| 3 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 protects | advcl |
| 4 | roosts | roost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lose | obj |
| 5 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 3 lose | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lose | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 law | det |
| 8 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 protects | nsubj |
| 9 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 protects | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 roosts | cc |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 roosts | nmod:poss |
| 13 | roosts | roost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 them | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 protects | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present | places = place | roosts | easily property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roost=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | protect | present | the law | roosts = roost | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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:5.
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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