Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog, sentence 12

Some of the smallest frogs, from Papua New Guinea and Brazil, are less than 8 millimetres long; they live in damp leaf litter eating tiny mites and are among the smallest animals with a backbone.

Who acts: Some, Frogs, damp leaf litter · What happens: be, live, eat · To what, where: damp leaf litter, tiny mites

This is a sentence of the lesson «Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog» 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 (Some, Frogs, damp leaf litter), 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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