Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers, sentence 16

Tent-making bats bite along a big leaf so it folds down into a tent that keeps off rain and hides them; Honduran white bats sleep under leaves where green light makes their white fur look green.

Who acts: Tent making bats, leaf, tent, Honduran white bats, green light, white fur · What happens: make, bite, fold down, keep off, hide, sleep · To what, where: big leaf, tent, rain, Bats, leaves, white fur

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers» 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 (Tent making bats, leaf, tent, Honduran white bats), 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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