Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar, sentence 7

Lobsters live on the sea floor, walk on thin legs and have ten legs in all, counting the two big claws; they cannot live long out of water, so a dance on the beach is impossible.

Who acts: Lobsters, dance · What happens: live, walk, have, count, not live, be · To what, where: sea floor, thin legs, ten legs, all, two big claws

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» 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 (Lobsters, dance), 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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