The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where, sentence 8

Small birds such as sparrows hop and leave pairs of prints, pigeons and crows walk and leave one print after another, and blackbirds can both hop and run.

Who acts: Small birds, pigeons, blackbirds · What happens: hop, leave, walk, run · To what, where: pairs, one print

This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» 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 (Small birds, pigeons, blackbirds), 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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