--- title: A vampire bat that misses its meal for about two nights can starve;… — Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, t… · tree and pragmatics description: A vampire bat that misses its meal for about two nights can starve; roost-mates that fed bring up blood to share, often with bats that shared with them before. Who acts: vampire bat, roost mates, bats. 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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, roost mates, bats), 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:13 # text = A vampire bat that misses its meal for about two nights can starve; roost-mates that fed bring up blood to share, often with bats that shared with them before. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 vampire vampire NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 misses miss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 starve starve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 roost roost NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 mates mate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 fed feed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 often often ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 shared share VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 before before ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **miss** | present | a vampire bat and roost mates | cut's meal | | | night | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus | | 2 | **starve** | can | a vampire bat and roost mates *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **feed** | past | roost mates | | | | | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **bring up** | infinitive | | blood | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | | 5 | **share** | to-infinitive | | | | | | with bats; often *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **share** | past | bats | | | | | with Bats *= bat*; before *property* | tree rules | 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:13`. **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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