China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders, sentence 19

The giant salamander takes much of its oxygen through its skin, and the wrinkly folds along its sides give it more skin; it has four toes on each front foot and five on each back foot.

Who acts: giant salamander, wrinkly folds, salamander · What happens: take, give, have · To what, where: much, skin, more skin, salamander, four toes, front foot

This is a sentence of the lesson «China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders» 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 (giant salamander, wrinkly folds, salamander), 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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