Quote Originally Posted by Soft sign View Post
The verb «покрывать» (“to cover”) is trivalent: ‘S covers O with I’.
Though you can easily see that in all cases of usage "покрывать" with I it has very different meaning, namely it means an action "S is putting I onto O" while without I it means a static state "S is positioned on O". Mixing those two constructions is just wrong and weird in my feeling. "Forests are putting themselves on..."?