Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles, sentence 14

The biggest muscle is the gluteus maximus in the bottom, which helps hold you upright and push you up stairs; the smallest is a tiny muscle in the middle ear that helps protect hearing from loud sounds.

Who acts: biggest muscle, gluteus maximus, smallest, tiny muscle · What happens: be, help, hold, push up, protect · To what, where: gluteus maximus, bottom, you, tiny muscle, middle ear, hearing

This is a sentence of the lesson «Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles» 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 (biggest muscle, gluteus maximus, smallest, tiny muscle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

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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