--- title: A bat box is a wooden box with a narrow slot at the bottom; it shoul… — Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxe… · tree and pragmatics description: A bat box is a wooden box with a narrow slot at the bottom; it should be put high up, out of reach of cats, catching some sun, and boxes are often put in groups facing different ways so bats can choose warmer or cooler ones. Who acts: bat box, groups, 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 (bat box, groups, bats), 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:11 # text = A bat box is a wooden box with a narrow slot at the bottom; it should be put high up, out of reach of cats, catching some sun, and boxes are often put in groups facing different ways so bats can choose warmer or cooler ones. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 slot slot NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 20 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 21 up up ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 out out ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 reach reach NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 catching catch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj 30 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 34 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 36 often often ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 40 facing face VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 acl _ _ 41 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 43 so so SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 44 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 45 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 47 warmer warm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 50 amod _ _ 48 or or CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=47:cc 49 cooler cool ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 47 conj _ _ 50 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **is a** | present | a bat box | a wooden box | | | | with a narrow slot at the bottom | tree rules | | 2 | **put** | should · passive | | box | | reach of cats | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme out reach=Destination | | 3 | **catch** | gerund | | some sun | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme | | 4 | **put** | present · passive | | boxes | | groups | | often *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in group=Destination | | 5 | **face** | gerund | groups *not said here* | different ways | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Destination | | 6 | **choose** | can | bats | warmer ones | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | 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:11`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules…, 10](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/10/) - next →: [Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules…, 12](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/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](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/)