Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel, sentence 19
Bats aren't blind: many see quite well, and many also use echoes to find their way in the dark.
Who acts: Bats, many · What happens: not be, see, use, find · To what, where: echoes, way, dark
This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» of the world 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, many), 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 | 4 blind | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 blind | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 blind | advmod |
| 4 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 blind | parataxis |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 well | advmod |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 see | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 use | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 use | cc |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 use | nsubj |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 use | advmod |
| 14 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | conj |
| 15 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 use | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 find | mark |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 use | advcl |
| 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 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 dark | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dark | det |
| 22 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 find | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blind | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Bats | blind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | present | many | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | use | present | many | echoes | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | many not said here | Bats's way | the dark | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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:world:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.lesson:19.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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