The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 17

Mayflies are eaten by trout and other fish that leap up at them, not by otters; an adult mayfly lives only a day or two and cannot even eat, after a year or more as a young nymph under the water.

Who acts: trout, other fish, adult mayfly · What happens: eat, leap up, live, not eat · To what, where: Mayflies

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 (trout, other fish, adult mayfly), 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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