Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams, sentence 9

The giant clam is the biggest clam in the world and can weigh more than two hundred kilos; the story of giant clams trapping divers' legs is a myth, because they close slowly and usually not fully.

Who acts: giant clam, story, kilos · What happens: be, weigh, trap, close · To what, where: biggest clam, world, hundred kilos, legs, myth

This is a sentence of the lesson «Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams» 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 (giant clam, story, kilos), 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

changed act=assert

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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