Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth, sentence 1

A rat can squeeze through a hole about the size of a coin, swim through a pipe and hold its breath for minutes, and its front teeth never stop growing, so it gnaws all the time, even through cables.

Who acts: rat, front teeth, breath · What happens: squeeze, swim, hold, not stop, grow, gnaw · To what, where: hole, pipe, breath, cables

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse 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 (rat, front teeth, breath), 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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