Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers, sentence 9

The blue morpho butterfly's wing scales have tiny ridges that reflect blue light, and its brown underside with eye spots makes it seem to vanish when it closes its wings.

Who acts: wing scales, tiny ridges, brown underside, it, underside · What happens: have, reflect, make, seem, vanish, close · To what, where: tiny ridges, blue light, wings

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers» 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 (wing scales, tiny ridges, brown underside, it), 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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