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description: British bats raise one baby a year in summer roosts in roofs and trees, and sleep through winter in cold places. Who acts: British bats. 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 with its d
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# Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up, sentence 4

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British bats raise one baby a year in summer roosts in roofs and trees, and sleep through winter in cold places.

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**Who acts:** British bats · **What happens:** raise, sleep · **To what, where:** one baby, summer roosts, cold places

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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), 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:4
# text = British bats raise one baby a year in summer roosts in roofs and trees, and sleep through winter in cold places.
# 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	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	raise	raise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	roosts	roost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | present | British bats | one baby |  | summer roosts in roofs and trees | year |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in roost=Destination |
| 2 | **sleep** | present | British bats *not said here* |  |  | cold places | winter |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |

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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): 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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