Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 16

A tiny person would lose heat quickly, like a mouse, because small bodies have a lot of skin for their size; that is why mice and shrews must eat very often to stay warm.

Who acts: tiny person, small bodies, that, mice · What happens: lose, have, be, eat, stay · To what, where: heat, lot

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» of the physics 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 (tiny person, small bodies, that, mice), 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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