--- title: Mexican free-tailed bats may fly over a hundred and sixty kilometres… — Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest · tree and pragmatics description: Mexican free-tailed bats may fly over a hundred and sixty kilometres an hour with long narrow wings, which may make them the fastest in level flight, though not all scientists agree. Who acts: Mexican tailed bats, long narrow wings, scientists. 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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 (Mexican tailed bats, long narrow wings, scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson:11 # text = Mexican free-tailed bats may fly over a hundred and sixty kilometres an hour with long narrow wings, which may make them the fastest in level flight, though not all scientists agree. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.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 ×1 1 Mexican Mexican ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 2 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 tailed tail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 over over ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 conj _ _ 13 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:unmarked _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 xcomp _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:nmod 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 though though SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 agree agree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tail** | participle | | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **fly** | may | Mexican tailed bats | hundred kilometres a hour | | | | with long narrow wings | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kilometre=Theme | | 3 | **make** | may | long narrow wings | kilometres *= kilometre* | | | | fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | all scientists | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson:11`. **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 ×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. 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