--- title: Bats are gentle and useful, but a bat you find on the ground needs a… — Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxe… · tree and pragmatics description: Bats are gentle and useful, but a bat you find on the ground needs a trained helper, never bare hands: tell a grown-up, who can call a bat helpline or a vet. Who acts: Bats, you, bat. 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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 (Bats, you, bat), 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:6 # text = Bats are gentle and useful, but a bat you find on the ground needs a trained helper, never bare hands: tell a grown-up, who can call a bat helpline or a vet. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 helper helper NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 23 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 24 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det 26 grown grown-up NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 28 up up PART RP _ 26 compound _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:acl:relcl 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 helpline helpline NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 39 . . 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 | **is** | present | Bats | | | | | gentle *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Bats *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **find** | present | you | a bat *not said here* | | the ground | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Topic | | 4 | **need** | present | a bat | a trained helper | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot helper=Theme | | 5 | **train** | participle | | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a bat *not said here* | grown | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient | | 7 | **call** | can | | a bat helpline or a vet | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent helpline=Recipient | 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:6`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules…, 5](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/5/) - next →: [Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules…, 7](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/7/) - ↑ 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/)