Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 17

Ticks are eight-legged arachnids that climb grass and grab passing animals to drink their blood; some carry Lyme disease, so a tick should be removed by an adult with a tick tool.

Who acts: Ticks, legged arachnids, some, adult · What happens: be, climb, grab, pass, drink, carry · To what, where: legged arachnids, grass, passing animals, blood, Lyme disease, tick

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures» 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 (Ticks, legged arachnids, some, adult), 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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