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title: There are more than 1,400 kinds of bat, about one in five mammal kin… — Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, t… · tree and pragmatics
description: There are more than 1,400 kinds of bat, about one in five mammal kinds; only rodents have more kinds. Who acts: 1,400 kinds, rodents. A sentence of the lesson «Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers, sentence 9

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There are more than 1,400 kinds of bat, about one in five mammal kinds; only rodents have more kinds.

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**Who acts:** 1,400 kinds, rodents · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** more kinds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers» 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 (1,400 kinds, rodents), 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:9
# text = There are more than 1,400 kinds of bat, about one in five mammal kinds; only rodents have more kinds.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	5	advmod	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	1,400	1,400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	mammal	mammal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
18	rodents	rodent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **does** | present | 1,400 kinds of bat |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | rodents | more kinds |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient |

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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:314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers.lesson:9`.

**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 ×2. **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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