Ships, ports and submarines, sentence 9

Container ships carry thousands of metal boxes of standard sizes, so any crane, ship, train or lorry can lift and carry them; most things in our shops travelled part of the way in a container.

Who acts: Container ships, crane, most things · What happens: carry, lift, travel · To what, where: thousands, cranes, part, container

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ships, ports and submarines» of the technology 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 (Container ships, crane, most things), 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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