The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter, sentence 8

Badgers do not truly hibernate, but in cold weather they stay underground for days, sleeping a lot and living on the fat they built up in autumn, a bit like the Badger who does nothing «strenuous» in winter.

Who acts: Badgers, setts, Badger · What happens: not hibernate, stay, sleep, live, build up, do · To what, where: bit, cold weather, lot, fat, nothing

This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter» 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 (Badgers, setts, Badger), 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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