Who eats whom: predators, prey, scavengers and decomposers, sentence 1

When your well-fed pet cat drops a mouse on the kitchen floor, it is not hungry and not giving you a present on purpose: the urge to stalk and pounce is built into every cat.

Who acts: fed pet cat, cat · What happens: feed, drop, not be, not give, stalk, pounce · To what, where: mouse, kitchen floor, present, you, purpose, urge

This is a sentence of the lesson «Who eats whom: predators, prey, scavengers and decomposers» 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 (fed pet cat, cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

neg

teacher

changed act=assert

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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