How do we unterstand texts? WHat is the role of simulation/ situation models?

How do we unterstand texts? WHat is the role of simulation/ situation models?

The situation model is based on the idea that people understand sentences by making mental representations of sentences in their heads. According to this model people instead of merely understanding the particular words of a story, they actually simulate the situations in their heads. So they imagine the objects, locations and the actual events that take place in the stories.

Understanding stories involves understanding sentences by determining how words are organized into phrases. Then determining the relationships between sentences, often using inferences. Finally, creating mental representations or simulations that involve both perceptual and motor properties of object and events in the story.
Simulation/situation models propose that the mental representations people form as they read the story do not consist of information about phrases or sentences, but of the representations of situation in terms of people, objects, locations describes in the story.