Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 9

All bats can see, and fruit bats rely on their eyes; many bats also find their way by echolocation, listening to echoes of their own calls.

Who acts: bats, fruit bats, many bats · What happens: see, rely, find, listen, call · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» of the myths 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 (bats, fruit bats, many 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 bats	det
2	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rely	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rely	cc
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bats	compound
8	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rely	nsubj
9	rely	rely	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 eyes	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rely	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 find	punct
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bats	amod
15	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 find	nsubj
16	also	also	ADV	_	17 find	advmod
17	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	parataxis
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 way	nmod:poss
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 echolocation	case
21	echolocation	echolocation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 listening	punct
23	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 find	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 echoes	case
25	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 listening	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 calls	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 calls	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 calls	amod
29	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 echoes	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	can	all bats			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	rely	present	fruit bats		on bats's eyes	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on eye=Theme
3	find	present	many bats	bats's way	by echolocation	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
4	listen	gerund	many bats not said here		to echoes of bats's own calls	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to echo=Theme
5	call		bats = bat			nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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:myths:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:9.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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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