Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth, sentence 8

The microbes in a cow's stomach make methane, a gas that warms the climate, and cows burp most of it out; scientists are testing seaweed in cow feed to cut it.

Who acts: microbes, gas, cows, scientists · What happens: make, warm, burp out, test, cut · To what, where: methane, climate, most, seaweed, cow feed

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth» 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 (microbes, gas, cows, scientists), 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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