Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?, sentence 8

Squids and octopuses squirt ink to hide or to make a blob shaped like a fake squid, the ink can dull a predator's senses of smell and taste, and people use squid and cuttlefish ink for writing and in black pasta.

Who acts: Squids, ink, people, predator · What happens: squirt, hide, make, shape, dull, use · To what, where: ink, blob, senses, squid ink, smell

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 (Squids, ink, people, predator), 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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