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title: A tiny pipistrelle, lighter than a coin, can eat around 3,000 small… — Myth check: are bats blind? · tree and pragmatics
description: A tiny pipistrelle, lighter than a coin, can eat around 3,000 small insects in one night. Who acts: tiny pipistrelle. 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.
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# Myth check: are bats blind?, sentence 13

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A tiny pipistrelle, lighter than a coin, can eat around 3,000 small insects in one night.

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**Who acts:** tiny pipistrelle · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** 3,000 small insects

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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 (tiny pipistrelle), 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:13
# text = A tiny pipistrelle, lighter than a coin, can eat around 3,000 small insects in one night.
# 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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pipistrelle	pipistrelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	around	around	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
13	3,000	3000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | can | a tiny pipistrelle | 3,000 small insects |  |  | night |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient |

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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.

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**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:13`.

**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 ×2. **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/).

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