--- title: Bats are not blind: all bats can see, and many also find insects in… — Senses: eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics description: Bats are not blind: all bats can see, and many also find insects in the dark by echolocation, making high squeaks and listening for the echoes. Who acts: Bats, many, insects. 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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, many, insects), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:069-senses-eyes-and-ears.lesson:12 # text = Bats are not blind: all bats can see, and many also find insects in the dark by echolocation, making high squeaks and listening for the echoes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 069-senses-eyes-and-ears.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NNS:Number=Plur|PronType=Ind 13 also also ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 15 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det 18 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 echolocation echolocation NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ _ 23 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 squeaks squeak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 listening listen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 conj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 echoes echo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** **is** | present | Bats | | | | | blind *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | can | all bats | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **find** | present | many | insects | | echolocation | | the dark *obl* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent insect=Attribute clause=Theme | | 4 | **make** | gerund | insects *not said here* | high squeaks | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset squeak=Product | | 5 | **listen** | gerund | insects *not said here* | | | | | for the echoes | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for echo=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:069-senses-eyes-and-ears.lesson:12`. **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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Senses: eyes and ears, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/11/) - next →: [Senses: eyes and ears, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/)