Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers, sentence 10

A bat's wing is a hand: four long fingers hold up the skin and a short clawed thumb sticks out; the skin stretches between the fingers, the body and the legs, and the name Chiroptera means hand-wing.

Who acts: wing, four long fingers, short clawed thumb, skin, name · What happens: be, hold up, claw, stick out, stretch, mean · To what, where: hand, skin, hand wing

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers» 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 (wing, four long fingers, short clawed thumb, skin), 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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