--- title: People say «as blind as a bat», but every bat can see, and big fruit… — Myth check: are bats blind? · tree and pragmatics description: People say «as blind as a bat», but every bat can see, and big fruit bats have large eyes that work well in dim light. Who acts: People, bat, big fruit bats, large eyes. A sentence of the lesson «Myth check: are bats blind?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Myth check: are bats blind?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/) / 0 # Myth check: are bats blind?, sentence 0 People say «as blind as a bat», but every bat can see, and big fruit bats have large eyes that work well in dim light. **Who acts:** People, bat, big fruit bats, large eyes · **What happens:** say, see, have, work · **To what, where:** large eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Myth check: are bats blind?» 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 (People, bat, big fruit bats, large eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:153-are-bats-blind.lesson:0 # text = People say «as blind as a bat», but every bat can see, and big fruit bats have large eyes that work well in dim light. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 153-are-bats-blind.lesson # annotation = 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 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 4 as as ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 8 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 dim dim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | People | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** | can | every bat | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **have** | present | big fruit bats | large eyes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 4 | **work** | present | large eyes | | | | | in dim light; well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in light=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:153-are-bats-blind.lesson:0`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Myth check: do goldfish have a three-s…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/17/) - next →: [Myth check: are bats blind?, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/)