Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?, sentence 2

But cartoons have spread tricks that animals never do: ostriches do not bury their heads, a chameleon cannot turn tartan, and a camel's hump is not a water tank.

Who acts: cartoons, animals, ostriches, chameleon, hump · What happens: spread, not do, not bury, not turn, not be · To what, where: tricks, heads, tartan, water tank

This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?» 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 (cartoons, animals, ostriches, chameleon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

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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