Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals, sentence 15

Huge brown or pink stains of penguin droppings can be seen on satellite photos of the ice, and scientists use them to find and count penguin colonies; the colour comes from the krill and fish penguins eat.

Who acts: scientists, colour, penguins · What happens: see, use, find, count, come, eat · To what, where: Huge brown stains, satellite photos, droppings, penguin colonies, krill, fish

This is a sentence of the lesson «Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals» 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 (scientists, colour, penguins), 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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