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title: Real vampire bats are tiny, live in Central and South America and mo… — Echolocation: how bats see with sound · tree and pragmatics
description: Real vampire bats are tiny, live in Central and South America and mostly lap blood from sleeping cows, horses and birds; they share food with hungry friends. Who acts: Real vampire bats, calls. A sentence of the lesson «Echolocation: how bats see with sound» of the biology course of Mova's primary s
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# Echolocation: how bats see with sound, sentence 12

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Real vampire bats are tiny, live in Central and South America and mostly lap blood from sleeping cows, horses and birds; they share food with hungry friends.

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**Who acts:** Real vampire bats, calls · **What happens:** be, live, lap, share · **To what, where:** Central, blood, food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Echolocation: how bats see with sound» 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 (Real vampire bats, calls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:229-echolocation-how-bats-see-with-sound.lesson:12
# text = Real vampire bats are tiny, live in Central and South America and mostly lap blood from sleeping cows, horses and birds; they share food with hungry friends.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 229-echolocation-how-bats-see-with-sound.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 ×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	tiny	tiny	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	_	_
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	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	lap	lap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
27	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Real vampire bats |  |  |  |  | tiny *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 | **lap** | present | Real vampire bats *not said here* | blood |  |  |  | from sleeping cows and horses and birds; mostly *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |
| 4 | **share** | present | calls *= call* | food |  |  |  | with hungry friends | tree rules |

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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:229-echolocation-how-bats-see-with-sound.lesson:12`.

**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 ×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/).

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