How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming, sentence 16

From 1960 Jane Goodall watched chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania, and saw one poke a grass stem into a termite mound to fish out termites, showing that chimps make and use tools; before that, many thought only humans made tools.

Who acts: Jane, one, chimps, many, humans · What happens: watch, see, poke, fish out, show, make · To what, where: chimpanzees, 1960, grass stem, termites, tools · 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 (Jane, one, chimps, many), 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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