--- title: Real life: bats really do hang upside down and find their way in the… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics description: Real life: bats really do hang upside down and find their way in the dark by listening to the echoes of their own squeaks; cats really purr, and kittens play-hunt string to practise catching prey. Who acts: bats, cats, kittens, life. 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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, cats, kittens, life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:094-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby.lesson:36 # text = Real life: bats really do hang upside down and find their way in the dark by listening to the echoes of their own squeaks; cats really purr, and kittens play-hunt string to practise catching prey. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 094-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 really really ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 8 upside upside NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 down down ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 17 by by SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 echoes echo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 squeaks squeak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj 28 really really ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 purr purr VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 kittens kitten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 35 hunt hunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 practise practise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl _ _ 39 catching catch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 40 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:obj 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang down** | present · do-support | bats | upside | | | | down *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Patient | | 2 | **find** | infinitive | bats *not said here* | life's way | | the dark | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 3 | **listen** | gerund | bats *not said here* | | | | | to the echoes of life's own squeaks | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to echo=Theme | | 4 | **purr** | infinitive | cats | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **play** | present | kittens | hunt string | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme | | 6 | **practise** | to-infinitive | kittens *not said here* | hunt string *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **catch** | gerund | kittens *not said here* | prey | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme | | 8 | **squeak** | | life | | | | | | nom squeak «event intransitive»: poss=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:books:094-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby.lesson:36`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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