--- title: Dracula stories and Halloween cartoons made bats into scary bloodsuc… — The nocturnal house: night animals by red light · tree and pragmatics description: Dracula stories and Halloween cartoons made bats into scary bloodsuckers, but only three kinds of bat drink blood, and even they lap a few drops rather than suck. Who acts: Dracula stories, three kinds, kinds. 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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 (Dracula stories, three kinds, kinds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson:4 # text = Dracula stories and Halloween cartoons made bats into scary bloodsuckers, but only three kinds of bat drink blood, and even they lap a few drops rather than suck. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.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 Dracula Dracula PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 Halloween Halloween PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 bloodsuckers bloodsucker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 even even ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 lap lap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 30 cc _ _ 29 than than ADP IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 suck suck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Dracula stories and Halloween cartoons | bats | | scary bloodsuckers | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent bat=Material into bloodsucker=Product | | 2 | **drink** | present | three kinds of bat | blood | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | | 3 | **lap** | present | kinds *= kind* | a few drops | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Patient | | 4 | **suck** | infinitive | kinds *= kind* *not said here* | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson:4`. **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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