--- title: Films show bats tangling in hair and vampires biting people, and Bat… — Myth check: are bats blind? · tree and pragmatics description: Films show bats tangling in hair and vampires biting people, and Batman made the bat a dark, scary sign; real bats are shy, useful animals that eat pests, spread seeds and pollinate flowers. Who acts: Films, bats, Batman, real bats. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Films, bats, Batman, real 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:3 # text = Films show bats tangling in hair and vampires biting people, and Batman made the bat a dark, scary sign; real bats are shy, useful animals that eat pests, spread seeds and pollinate flowers. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 tangling tangle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 vampires vampire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 biting bite VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 Batman Batman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 parataxis _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 appos _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 pests pest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 35 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 pollinate pollinate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 38 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **show** | present | Films | bats | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bat=Recipient | | 2 | **tangle** | gerund | bats *not said here* | | | hair and vampires | | | tree rules | | 3 | **bite** | gerund | bats *not said here* | people | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 4 | **make** | past | Batman | the bat | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset bat=Beneficiary sign=Product | | 5 | **is** | present | real bats | | | | | shy *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **eat** | present | useful animals | pests | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pest=Patient | | 7 | **spread** | present | useful animals *not said here* | seeds | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme | | 8 | **pollinate** | present | useful animals *not said here* | flowers | | | | | 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:3`. **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): R8-pos-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?, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/2/) - next →: [Myth check: are bats blind?, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/)