--- title: Common vampire bats walk on the ground, make a tiny cut and lap a li… — The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants,… · tree and pragmatics description: Common vampire bats walk on the ground, make a tiny cut and lap a little blood, and their saliva stops the blood from clotting. Who acts: Common vampire bats, saliva. 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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 (Common vampire bats, saliva), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:157-the-amazon-forest-floor.lesson:16 # text = Common vampire bats walk on the ground, make a tiny cut and lap a little blood, and their saliva stops the blood from clotting. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 157-the-amazon-forest-floor.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 vampire vampire NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 cut cut NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 lap lap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 saliva saliva NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 clotting clot VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | present | Common vampire bats | | | the ground | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory | | 2 | **make** | present | Common vampire bats *not said here* | a tiny cut | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cut=Product | | 3 | **lap** | present | Common vampire bats *not said here* | a little blood | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | | 4 | **stop** | present | bats's saliva | the blood | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality blood=Eventuality | | 5 | **clot** | gerund | | | | | | | 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:157-the-amazon-forest-floor.lesson:16`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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: [The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters,…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/15/) - next →: [Amazon giants and tall tales: anaconda…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/)