Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore, sentence 14

Crabs walk sideways because their leg joints bend best that way, though many can also walk slowly forwards, have 10 legs counting the 2 claws, and grow by moulting their hard shell.

Who acts: Crabs, leg joints, many, 10 legs · What happens: walk, bend, have, count, grow, moult · To what, where: way, 10 legs, 2 claws, hard shell

This is a sentence of the lesson «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» 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 (Crabs, leg joints, many, 10 legs), 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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