--- title: A bat caught by a cat needs a rescuer even if it looks fine, because… — Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxe… · tree and pragmatics description: A bat caught by a cat needs a rescuer even if it looks fine, because tiny wounds from cat teeth can become infected and kill the bat days later; cats catch many thousands of bats in Britain each year, reported. Who acts: bat, tiny wounds, cats. 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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, tiny wounds, cats), 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:14 # text = A bat caught by a cat needs a rescuer even if it looks fine, because tiny wounds from cat teeth can become infected and kill the bat days later; cats catch many thousands of bats in Britain each year, reported. # 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 rescuer rescuer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 even even ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 14 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 17 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 wounds wound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 24 infected infect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 xcomp _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:det 28 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl:unmarked 30 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 34 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:nmod 40 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 41 det _ _ 41 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 43 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **catch** | participle | | a bat *not said here* | | | | by a cat | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **need** | present | a bat | a rescuer | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rescuer=Theme | | 3 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | bat | | | | | fine *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **become** | can | tiny wounds from cat teeth | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **infect** | participle | tiny wounds from cat teeth *not said here* | | | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **kill** | infinitive | tiny wounds from cat teeth *not said here* | | | | | late *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **catch** | present | cats | many thousands of bats | | Britain | year | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme | | 8 | **report** | past | | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:14`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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…, 13](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/13/) - next →: [Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules…, 15](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/15/) - ↑ 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/)