The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 8

Water voles eat grasses, reeds and other waterside plants, not fish, and they dig burrows in the bank with some entrances under the water, so they can slip away with a «plop».

Who acts: Water voles, grasses · What happens: eat, dig, slip away · To what, where: grasses, burrows, bank

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 (Water voles, grasses), 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 polarity=none

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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