--- title: British bats hibernate in winter when insects disappear, slowing the… — Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxe… · tree and pragmatics description: British bats hibernate in winter when insects disappear, slowing their hearts and cooling down; waking them uses up the fat they need to last until spring. Who acts: British bats, insects, waking, fat. 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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 (British bats, insects, waking, fat), 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:15 # text = British bats hibernate in winter when insects disappear, slowing their hearts and cooling down; waking them uses up the fat they need to last until spring. # 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 ×1 1 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hibernate hibernate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 disappear disappear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 slowing slow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 cooling cool VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 15 down down ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 waking wake VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 csubj _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 until until ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hibernate** | present | British bats | | | | winter | | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | | 2 | **disappear** | present | insects | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **slow** | gerund | British bats *not said here* | insects's hearts | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | | 4 | **cool down** | gerund | British bats *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **wake** | gerund | | hearts *= heart* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 6 | **use up** | present | waking | the fat | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Patient | | 7 | **need** | present | insects *= insect* | the fat *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **last** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the fat *not said here* | | | | spring | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:15`. **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 ×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. 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