--- title: Bats do not get tangled in people's hair; they are very good at avoi… — Myth check: are bats blind? · tree and pragmatics description: Bats do not get tangled in people's hair; they are very good at avoiding obstacles and may fly close only to catch insects around people. Who acts: hair. 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 --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Myth check: are bats blind?, sentence 7 Bats do not get tangled in people's hair; they are very good at avoiding obstacles and may fly close only to catch insects around people. **Who acts:** hair · **What happens:** not tangle, be, avoid, fly, catch · **To what, where:** Bats, hair, obstacles, insects 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 (hair), 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:7 # text = Bats do not get tangled in people's hair; they are very good at avoiding obstacles and may fly close only to catch insects around people. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 tangled tangle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 15 at at SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 avoiding avoid VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 17 obstacles obstacle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 21 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 25 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 around around ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **tangle** | present · passive · do-support | | Bats | | people's hair | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | hair | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **avoid** | gerund | hair *not said here* | obstacles | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent obstacle=Location | | 4 | **fly** | may | hair *not said here* | | | | | close *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **catch** | to-infinitive | hair *not said here* | insects | | | | around people | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=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:7`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Myth check: are bats blind?, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/6/) - next →: [Myth check: are bats blind?, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/)