--- title: Vampire bat spit stops blood going thick and sticky, so the cut keep… — Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, t… · tree and pragmatics description: Vampire bat spit stops blood going thick and sticky, so the cut keeps flowing, and scientists have studied it to make new medicines. Who acts: Vampire bat spit, blood, cut, 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 (Vampire bat spit, blood, cut, scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers.lesson:12 # text = Vampire bat spit stops blood going thick and sticky, so the cut keeps flowing, and scientists have studied it to make new medicines. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers.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): no change 1 Vampire vampire NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 spit spit NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 cut cut NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 flowing flow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 studied study VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 24 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 medicines medicine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | present | Vampire bat spit | blood | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality blood=Eventuality | | 2 | **go** | gerund | blood *not said here* | | | | | thick *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | present | the cut | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **flow** | gerund | the cut *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **study** | present · perfect | scientists | cut | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | scientists *not said here* | new medicines | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset medicine=Product | 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:314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers.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): no change. **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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