Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish, sentence 1

In Dumbo the grown-up elephants scream and climb onto a stool when a tiny mouse runs past, and in the old Lemmings computer game little creatures march off cliffs in a line.

Who acts: grown elephants, tiny mouse, little creatures · What happens: grow up, scream, climb, run past, march · To what, where: Dumbo, stool, old Lemmings computer game

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish» 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 (grown elephants, tiny mouse, little creatures), 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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