Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets, sentence 14

The adder, a grey-brown snake with a dark zigzag down its back, is venomous and lives in Ukraine and much of Europe, but it bites only when stepped on or grabbed and would rather slide away.

Who acts: adder · What happens: be, live, bite, step on, grab, slide away · To what, where: Ukraine

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets» 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 (adder), 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

changed act=assert

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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