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title: Some bats feed on fruit and nectar and, like bees, carry pollen betw… — Myth check: are bats blind? · tree and pragmatics
description: Some bats feed on fruit and nectar and, like bees, carry pollen between flowers and spread seeds; the wild ancestors of bananas and the agave are pollinated by bats. Who acts: bats. A sentence of the lesson «Myth check: are bats blind?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Myth check: are bats blind?, sentence 14

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Some bats feed on fruit and nectar and, like bees, carry pollen between flowers and spread seeds; the wild ancestors of bananas and the agave are pollinated by bats.

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**Who acts:** bats · **What happens:** feed, carry, spread, pollinate · **To what, where:** pollen, seeds, wild ancestors

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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 (bats), 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:14
# text = Some bats feed on fruit and nectar and, like bees, carry pollen between flowers and spread seeds; the wild ancestors of bananas and the agave are pollinated by bats.
# 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
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	agave	agave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | present | some bats |  |  |  |  | on fruit and nectar | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on fruit=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | present | some bats *not said here* | pollen |  |  |  | like bees; between flowers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme |
| 3 | **spread** | present | some bats *not said here* | seeds |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme |
| 4 | **pollinate** | present · passive | bats | the wild ancestors of bananas and the agave |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:14`.

**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. **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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