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title: Bats are not the only animals that find their way with echoes; dolph… — Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bats are not the only animals that find their way with echoes; dolphins, many whales, some cave birds, shrews and even some blind people do it too. Who acts: Bats, only animals, dolphins. A sentence of the lesson «Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans
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# Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans, sentence 0

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Bats are not the only animals that find their way with echoes; dolphins, many whales, some cave birds, shrews and even some blind people do it too.

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**Who acts:** Bats, only animals, dolphins · **What happens:** not be, find, do · **To what, where:** only animals, way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans» 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 (Bats, only animals, dolphins), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans.lesson:0
# text = Bats are not the only animals that find their way with echoes; dolphins, many whales, some cave birds, shrews and even some blind people do it too.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	parataxis	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	echoes	echo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	shrews	shrew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
27	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	too	too	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29: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 | **not** **is a** | present | Bats | the only animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | present | the only animals | Bats's way |  |  |  | with echoes | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | present | dolphins and many whales and some cave birds and shrews and some blind people | way |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans.lesson:0`.

**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): R6-punct-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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