The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 10

A European mole has velvety black fur that lies flat whichever way it is brushed, so it can move forwards or backwards in its tunnels without getting its fur rubbed the wrong way.

Who acts: European mole, velvety black fur, flat way, Mole · What happens: have, lie, brush, move forward, get, rub · To what, where: velvety black fur, flat way, Mole, tunnels, fur

This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds» 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 (European mole, velvety black fur, flat way, Mole), 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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