How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming, sentence 15

Some old nature films staged scenes, like a 1958 film that showed lemmings being pushed off a cliff, though real lemmings do not leap to their deaths; today good films tell you when a scene was filmed in a studio, a zoo or a special set.

Who acts: old nature films, 1958 film, real lemmings, good films, lemmings · What happens: stage, show, push off, not leap, tell, film · To what, where: scenes, lemmings, deaths, you, scene, studio · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming» 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 (old nature films, 1958 film, real lemmings, good films), 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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