--- title: It is not a moth or a bird but a pipistrelle, a bat lighter than a p… — Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxe… · tree and pragmatics description: It is not a moth or a bird but a pipistrelle, a bat lighter than a pound coin, snapping up insects drawn to the light. Who acts: shape, bat. A sentence of the lesson «Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/315-bats-near-home-pipistrelles-noctules-bat-boxes-and-why-never-to-pick-one-up/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/315-bats-near-home-pipistrelles-noctules-bat-boxes-and-why-never-to-pick-one-up/) / 1 # Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up, sentence 1 It is not a moth or a bird but a pipistrelle, a bat lighter than a pound coin, snapping up insects drawn to the light. **Who acts:** shape, bat · **What happens:** not be, snap up, draw · **To what, where:** moth, insects, light This is a sentence of the lesson «Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up» 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 (shape, bat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:315-bats-near-home-pipistrelles-noctules-bat-boxes-and-why-never-to-pick-one-up.lesson:1 # text = It is not a moth or a bird but a pipistrelle, a bat lighter than a pound coin, snapping up insects drawn to the light. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 315-bats-near-home-pipistrelles-noctules-bat-boxes-and-why-never-to-pick-one-up.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 ×2 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 moth moth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 pipistrelle pipistrelle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj 15 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis 16 than than ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 pound pound NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 snapping snap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 acl _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | shape | a moth or a bird but a pipistrelle | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **snap up** | gerund | a bat *not said here* | insects | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location insect=Theme | | 3 | **draw** | participle | | insects *not said here* | | the light | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to light=Destination | 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:315-bats-near-home-pipistrelles-noctules-bat-boxes-and-why-never-to-pick-one-up.lesson:1`. **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 ×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. 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