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title: A bat on the ground in daytime may be hurt, cold, tired or a lost ba… — Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxe… · tree and pragmatics
description: A bat on the ground in daytime may be hurt, cold, tired or a lost baby; never pick it up with bare hands, because some British bats carry a rare rabies-like virus and only trained, vaccinated people should handle them. Who acts: British bats, rabies. A sentence of the lesson «Bats near home: pipistr
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# Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up, sentence 13

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A bat on the ground in daytime may be hurt, cold, tired or a lost baby; never pick it up with bare hands, because some British bats carry a rare rabies-like virus and only trained, vaccinated people should handle them.

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**Who acts:** British bats, rabies · **What happens:** hurt, lose, not pick up, carry, train, vaccinate · **To what, where:** bat, rare like virus, people

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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 (British bats, rabies), 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:13
# text = A bat on the ground in daytime may be hurt, cold, tired or a lost baby; never pick it up with bare hands, because some British bats carry a rare rabies-like virus and only trained, vaccinated people should handle them.
# 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	daytime	daytime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
30	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:det
34	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:amod
35	rabies	rabies	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	_
37	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	only	only	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl:relcl	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	vaccinated	vaccinate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:acl:relcl
44	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:obl:agent
45	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	ccomp	_	_
47	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | may · passive |  | a bat on the ground in daytime |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **pick up** | infinitive |  | bat |  |  |  | with bare hands | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **carry** | present | some British bats | a rare like virus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **train** | participle |  | a rare like virus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **vaccinate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **handle** | should | rabies | people |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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**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 ×5, 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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