Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs, sentence 1
Real spiders make silk in glands inside the abdomen and pull it out through little nozzles called spinnerets at the back end; it starts as a liquid and turns into a thread as it is stretched.
Who acts: Real spiders, silk · What happens: make, pull out, call, start, turn, stretch · To what, where: silk, glands, little nozzles, thread · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs» 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 (Real spiders, silk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spiders | amod |
| 2 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 glands | case |
| 6 | glands | gland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | obl |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 9 abdomen | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 abdomen | det |
| 9 | abdomen | abdomen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glands | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pull | cc |
| 11 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pull | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 pull | compound:prt |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 nozzles | case |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 nozzles | amod |
| 16 | nozzles | nozzle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pull | obl |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 nozzles | acl |
| 18 | spinnerets | spinneret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 nozzles | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 end | det |
| 21 | back | back | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 end | amod |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nozzles | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 starts | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 starts | nsubj |
| 25 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | parataxis |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 liquid | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 liquid | det |
| 28 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 starts | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 turns | cc |
| 30 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 starts | conj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 thread | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 thread | det |
| 33 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 turns | obl |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 stretched | mark |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 stretched | aux:pass |
| 37 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 turns | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Real spiders | silk | glands inside the abdomen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset silk=Product | |||
| 2 | pull out | present | Real spiders not said here | silk | little nozzles at the back end and spinnerets | tree rules | |||
| 3 | call | participle | little nozzles at the back end and spinnerets not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | start | present | silk | as a liquid | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | turn | present | silk not said here | a thread | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into thread=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | stretch | present · passive | silk | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs.lesson:1.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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