The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued, sentence 14

In the most radioactive spots fallen leaves rot slowly, which scientists think is because the tiny decomposers that break down dead things, such as fungi, germs and minibeasts, are harmed.

Who acts: fallen leaves, scientists, tiny decomposers · What happens: fall, rot, think, break down, be · To what, where: radioactive spots, dead things, tiny decomposers

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» 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 (fallen leaves, scientists, tiny decomposers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

neg

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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