--- title: Bats are the only mammals that can truly fly, and about one in five… — Myth check: are bats blind? · tree and pragmatics description: Bats are the only mammals that can truly fly, and about one in five of all mammal kinds is a bat. Who acts: Bats, only mammals, one. A sentence of the lesson «Myth check: are bats blind?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Myth check: are bats blind?, sentence 12 Bats are the only mammals that can truly fly, and about one in five of all mammal kinds is a bat. **Who acts:** Bats, only mammals, one · **What happens:** be, fly · **To what, where:** only mammals, bat 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 (Bats, only mammals, one), 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:12 # text = Bats are the only mammals that can truly fly, and about one in five of all mammal kinds is a bat. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 truly truly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nsubj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 18 mammal mammal NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **is a** | present | Bats | the only mammals | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fly** | can | the only mammals | | | | | truly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | one in five of all mammal kinds | a bat | | | | | tree rules | 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:12`. **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): 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: are bats blind?, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/11/) - next →: [Myth check: are bats blind?, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/)