Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish, sentence 13

In Britain the crane fly is called daddy long legs; it is not a spider and has no venom, and the cellar spiders also called daddy long legs have weak venom that is harmless to people.

Who acts: fly, cellar spiders, weak venom · What happens: call, not be, have, be · To what, where: crane fly, Britain, spider, venom, daddy long legs, weak venom · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fly, cellar spiders, weak venom), 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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