Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys, sentence 12

Pit vipers have small pits on their faces that sense heat, so they can find warm mice and birds in the dark; China has many kinds of snakes, and most try to avoid people.

Who acts: Pit vipers, small pits, vipers, China, most · What happens: have, sense, find, try, avoid · To what, where: small pits, faces, heat, warm mice, dark, many kinds

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys» 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 (Pit vipers, small pits, vipers, China), 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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