The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters, sentence 9

Zoos can mix capybaras, rheas, tapirs and anteaters, which live together in the wild and eat different foods; capybaras, the biggest rodents in the world, are so calm that birds and other animals sit on them.

Who acts: Zoos, anteaters, capybaras, birds · What happens: mix, live together, eat, be, sit · To what, where: capybaras, wild, different foods

This is a sentence of the lesson «The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zoos, anteaters, capybaras, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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