--- title: The common pipistrelle is Britain's commonest bat; it weighs about 5… — Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxe… · tree and pragmatics description: The common pipistrelle is Britain's commonest bat; it weighs about 5 grams, less than a pound coin, may eat thousands of tiny insects in one night, and can squeeze through a gap about 1 centimetre wide. Who acts: common pipistrelle, 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 (common pipistrelle, 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:7 # text = The common pipistrelle is Britain's commonest bat; it weighs about 5 grams, less than a pound coin, may eat thousands of tiny insects in one night, and can squeeze through a gap about 1 centimetre wide. # 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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pipistrelle pipistrelle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 commonest common ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 grams gram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 advcl _ _ 17 than than ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 pound pound NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 24 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 squeeze squeeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 35 through through ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 about about ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 centimetre centimetre NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:obl 41 wide wide ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 a** | present | the common pipistrelle | Britain's commonest bat | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **weigh** | present | bat | 5 grams | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme gram=Value | | 3 | **eat** | may | bat *not said here* | thousands of tiny insects | | | night | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient | | 4 | **squeeze** | can | bat *not said here* | | | a gap | | wide *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through gap=Trajectory | 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:7`. **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 ×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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