Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish, sentence 16

Hedgehogs eat beetles, worms and slugs, not apples; old pictures showed them carrying fruit on their spines, and milk makes hedgehogs ill, while cat food and water are safe for them.

Who acts: Hedgehogs, old pictures, milk, cat food · What happens: eat, show, carry, make, be · To what, where: beetles, fruit, spines, hedgehogs

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 (Hedgehogs, old pictures, milk, cat food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

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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