Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, sentence 5

Plants even fight back: an onion makes a stinging gas when you cut it, and a chilli makes a chemical that tricks your mouth into feeling fire.

Who acts: Plants, onion, you, chilli, chemical · What happens: fight back, make, sting, cut, trick · To what, where: stinging gas, gas, chemical, mouth, feeling fire

This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» 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 (Plants, onion, you, chilli), 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

changed act=assert

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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