Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders, sentence 4

Snow leopards live high in the mountains of Asia; their long thick tails help them balance and wrap round their faces to keep them warm when they sleep.

Who acts: Snow leopards, long thick tails, leopards, tails · What happens: live, help, balance, wrap, keep, sleep · To what, where: mountains, leopards, faces

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 (Snow leopards, long thick tails, leopards, tails), 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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