--- title: Real vampire bats are small, live in Central and South America, and… — Myth check: are bats blind? · tree and pragmatics description: Real vampire bats are small, live in Central and South America, and mostly feed on the blood of cattle, horses and birds, rarely people. Who acts: Real vampire 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 (Real vampire 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:8 # text = Real vampire bats are small, live in Central and South America, and mostly feed on the blood of cattle, horses and birds, rarely 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 vampire vampire NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Central Central PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:compound 12 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 cattle cattle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj 29 . . 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 | **is** | present | Real vampire bats | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | Real vampire bats *not said here* | | | Central and South and America | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in central=Location | | 3 | **feed** | present | Real vampire bats *not said here* | | | | | on the blood of cattle and horses and birds; mostly *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on blood=Patient | 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:8`. **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, 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?, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/7/) - next →: [Myth check: are bats blind?, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/)