--- title: A bat flies, but it has fur and feeds its babies milk, so it is a ma… — Classifying unusual animals · tree and pragmatics description: A bat flies, but it has fur and feeds its babies milk, so it is a mammal; a whale lives in the sea, but it breathes air with lungs and feeds its calf milk, so it is a mammal too. Who acts: bat, whale. 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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 (bat, whale), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:029-classifying-unusual-animals.lesson:1 # text = A bat flies, but it has fur and feeds its babies milk, so it is a mammal; a whale lives in the sea, but it breathes air with lungs and feeds its calf milk, so it is a mammal too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 029-classifying-unusual-animals.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 iobj _ _ 13 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 mammal mammal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 breathes breathe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 31 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 calf calf NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 mammal mammal NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 45 too too ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 46 . . 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 | **fly** | present | a bat | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | bat | fur | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Patient | | 3 | **feed** | present | bat *not said here* | milk | bat's babies | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent baby=Recipient milk=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | bat | a mammal | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **live** | present | a whale | | | the sea | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location | | 6 | **breathe** | present | whale | air | | | | with lungs | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | | 7 | **feed** | present | whale *not said here* | whale's calf milk | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | | 8 | **is a** | present | bat | a mammal | | | | | tree rules | 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:world:029-classifying-unusual-animals.lesson:1`. **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): 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: [Classifying unusual animals, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/0/) - next →: [Classifying unusual animals, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/)