Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets, sentence 17

A tick is a tiny eight-legged relative of spiders, not an insect; it waits on grass tips, grabs passing animals and drinks blood, and some ticks carry illnesses like Lyme disease.

Who acts: tick, ticks · What happens: be, wait, grab, pass, drink, carry · To what, where: tiny legged relative, grass tips, passing animals, blood, illnesses

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 (tick, ticks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

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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