Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat, sentence 15

A water-mill uses moving water to turn a wheel, which turns heavy millstones that grind grain into flour; the Domesday Book of 1086 counted more than 5,000 mills in England.

Who acts: water mill, wheel, heavy millstones, Domesday Book · What happens: use, move, turn, grind, count · To what, where: moving water, wheel, heavy millstones, grain, flour, 5,000 mills

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat» of the technology 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 mill, wheel, heavy millstones, Domesday Book), 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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