Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth, sentence 3

Think of the cartoon where a huge elephant jumps on a chair, screaming at a tiny mouse: it is funny, but there is no good evidence that real elephants fear mice.

Who acts: you, huge elephant, elephant, good evidence, real elephants · What happens: think, jump, scream, be, fear · To what, where: chair, mice

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the 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 (you, huge elephant, elephant, good evidence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

command

act

request

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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