Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders, sentence 10

Mountain goats and ibexes climb steep cliffs; their hooves have soft pads and hard edges, and Alpine ibexes even climb dam walls to lick salt from the stones.

Who acts: Mountain goats, hooves, Alpine ibexes · What happens: climb, have, lick · To what, where: steep cliffs, soft pads, dam walls, salt, stones

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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 (Mountain goats, hooves, Alpine ibexes), 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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