--- title: Bats do not get tangled in people's hair; a bat swooping near your h… — Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxe… · tree and pragmatics description: Bats do not get tangled in people's hair; a bat swooping near your head is most likely catching insects flying around you, and its echoes can dodge a thread. Who acts: bat, insects, echoes. 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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, insects, echoes), 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:18 # text = Bats do not get tangled in people's hair; a bat swooping near your head is most likely catching insects flying around you, and its echoes can dodge a thread. # 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): no change 1 Bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 tangled tangle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 13 swooping swoop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 near near ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 18 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 19 advmod _ _ 19 likely likely ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 20 catching catch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 parataxis _ _ 21 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 acl _ _ 23 around around ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 echoes echo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 dodge dodge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **tangle** | present · passive · do-support | | Bats | | people's hair | | | tree rules | | 2 | **swoop** | gerund | a bat *not said here* | | | your head | | | tree rules | | 3 | **catch** | gerund | a bat | insects | | | | likely *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | | 4 | **fly** | gerund | insects *not said here* | | | | | around you | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around you=Location | | 5 | **dodge** | can | head's echoes | a thread | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent thread=Location | 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:18`. **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): no change. **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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