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title: Cave animals find their way in other ways: bats and swiftlets click… — Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworm… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cave animals find their way in other ways: bats and swiftlets click and listen to the echoes, cave crickets feel the way with very long feelers, and some fish and the pale olm have lost their eyes altogether. Who acts: Cave animals, bats, cave crickets, fish. A sentence of the lesson «Caves: bat clo
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# Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a sealed cave, sentence 1

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Cave animals find their way in other ways: bats and swiftlets click and listen to the echoes, cave crickets feel the way with very long feelers, and some fish and the pale olm have lost their eyes altogether.

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**Who acts:** Cave animals, bats, cave crickets, fish · **What happens:** find, click, listen, feel, lose · **To what, where:** way, other ways, eyes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a sealed cave» 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 (Cave animals, bats, cave crickets, fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave.lesson:1
# text = Cave animals find their way in other ways: bats and swiftlets click and listen to the echoes, cave crickets feel the way with very long feelers, and some fish and the pale olm have lost their eyes altogether.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave.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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	swiftlets	swiftlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	click	click	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	listen	listen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	echoes	echo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	crickets	cricket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	feelers	feeler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	olm	olm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
37	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
42	.	.	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 | **find** | present | Cave animals | animals's way |  | other ways |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 2 | **click** | present | bats and swiftlets |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **listen** | present | bats and swiftlets *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the echoes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to echo=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** | present | cave crickets | the way |  |  |  | with long feelers | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 5 | **lose** | present · perfect | some fish and the pale olm | animals's eyes |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality |

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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:179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave.lesson:1`.

**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, 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/).

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