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title: If a bat flies into a house, open the windows wide, turn off the lig… — Kindness to wild animals · tree and pragmatics
description: If a bat flies into a house, open the windows wide, turn off the lights and leave the room; the bat usually finds its own way out, and it should not be touched with bare hands. Who acts: bat, you. A sentence of the lesson «Kindness to wild animals» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with
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# Kindness to wild animals, sentence 13

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If a bat flies into a house, open the windows wide, turn off the lights and leave the room; the bat usually finds its own way out, and it should not be touched with bare hands.

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**Who acts:** bat, you · **What happens:** fly, open, turn off, leave, find, not touch · **To what, where:** house, windows, lights, room, own way, bat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to wild animals» 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 (bat, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:226-kindness-to-wild-animals.lesson:13
# text = If a bat flies into a house, open the windows wide, turn off the lights and leave the room; the bat usually finds its own way out, and it should not be touched with bare hands.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 226-kindness-to-wild-animals.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	out	out	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a bat |  |  |  |  | into a house *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result |
| 2 | **open** | imperative | you *not said here* | the windows |  |  |  | wide *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme |
| 3 | **turn off** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the lights |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent light=Patient |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the room |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | present | the bat | bat's own way |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **touch** | should · passive |  | bat |  |  |  | with bare hands | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme with hand=Instrument |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×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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