Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins, sentence 2

Many of these animals live right next to us: foxes trot down city streets at night, raccoons open bins, and robins follow gardeners for worms, just as their ancestors followed wild boar.

Who acts: Many, foxes, raccoons, robins, ancestors · What happens: live, trot down, open, follow · To what, where: city streets, bins, gardeners, wild boar

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins» 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 (Many, foxes, raccoons, robins), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

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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