--- title: In Britain it is against the law to disturb roosting bats or open a… — Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxe… · tree and pragmatics description: In Britain it is against the law to disturb roosting bats or open a bat box without a licence; trained bat workers with licences check the boxes and count the bats. Who acts: trained bat workers. 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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 (trained bat workers), 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:12 # text = In Britain it is against the law to disturb roosting bats or open a bat box without a licence; trained bat workers with licences check the boxes and count the bats. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 against against ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 disturb disturb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl 10 roosting roost VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 without without ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 licence licence NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 22 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 parataxis _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 licences licence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | Britain | | against the law | tree rules | | 2 | **disturb** | to-infinitive | | roosting bats | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bat=Experiencer | | 3 | **roost** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **open** | infinitive | | a bat box | | | | without a licence | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme | | 5 | **train** | participle | | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **check** | infinitive | trained bat workers with licences *not said here* | the boxes | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | | 7 | **count** | infinitive | trained bat workers with licences *not said here* | the bats | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=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: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): 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. 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