Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog, sentence 15

Frogs pull their eyes down into the head when they swallow, so the eyeballs press on the roof of the mouth and help push food down the throat.

Who acts: Frogs, eyeballs · What happens: pull down, swallow, press, help, push · To what, where: eyes, head, food, throat

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 (Frogs, eyeballs), 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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