Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 19

Ants follow smell trails left by the first ant that found food, so wiping the trail with soapy water confuses them; ants are a nuisance but not dirty like cockroaches.

Who acts: Ants, first ant, wiping · What happens: follow, leave, find, wipe, confuse, be · To what, where: smell trails, food, trail, trails, nuisance

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 (Ants, first ant, wiping), 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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