The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued, sentence 15

Spanish scientists reported that eastern tree frogs in the zone are darker than usual; they think the dark pigment melanin may have helped frogs survive, and it is still being studied.

Who acts: Spanish scientists, eastern tree frogs, scientists, dark pigment melanin, frogs · What happens: report, be, think, help, survive, study · To what, where: melanin · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Spanish scientists, eastern tree frogs, scientists, dark pigment melanin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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