Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders, sentence 2

Picture a goat standing on a cliff so steep you could not climb it with your hands: its hooves have soft pads that grip like the soles of trainers and hard edges that dig in.

Who acts: you, goat, hooves, soft pads, hard edges · What happens: picture, stand, not climb, have, grip, dig in · To what, where: goat, cliff, soft pads

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 (you, goat, hooves, soft pads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

command

act

request

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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