Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad, sentence 6

Common frog spawn comes in a clump, each egg in its own jelly ball that protects it and keeps it warm like a little greenhouse; one common frog can lay about 1,000 to 2,000 eggs.

Who acts: Common frog spawn, own jelly ball, one common frog · What happens: come, protect, keep, lay about · To what, where: clump, spawn, 1,000 eggs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad» 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 (Common frog spawn, own jelly ball, one common frog), 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

changed polarity=none

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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