Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants, sentence 6

The fog-basking beetle of the Namib Desert stands head-down on a dune at dawn; fog forms droplets on its bumpy back that roll down to its mouth, and engineers have copied its back to collect water from fog.

Who acts: basking beetle, fog, droplets, engineers · What happens: bask, stand, form, roll down, copy, collect · To what, where: dune, droplets, bumpy back, mouth, back, water

This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants» 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 (basking beetle, fog, droplets, engineers), 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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