Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 13

Holes in wool jumpers are made by the caterpillars of clothes moths, not by the grown-up moths, which do not eat; the caterpillars eat wool, fur and feathers and prefer dirty clothes in dark wardrobes.

Who acts: caterpillars, grown moths · What happens: make, grow up, not eat, eat, prefer · To what, where: Holes, wool, dirty clothes, dark wardrobes

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice» 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 (caterpillars, grown moths), 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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