Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs, sentence 14

A golden cape was woven from the silk of over a million golden orb weaver spiders in Madagascar; spiders cannot be farmed like silkworms because they eat each other.

Who acts: silkworms · What happens: weave, not farm, eat · To what, where: golden cape, silk, spiders, each

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 (silkworms), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cape	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cape	amod
3	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woven	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 woven	aux:pass
5	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 silk	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 silk	det
8	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woven	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	16 spiders	case
10	over	over	ADV	_	12 million	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 million	det
12	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 spiders	nummod
13	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 spiders	amod
14	orb	orb	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 weaver	compound
15	weaver	weaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spiders	compound
16	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 silk	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Madagascar	case
18	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 spiders	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 farmed	punct
20	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 farmed	nsubj:pass
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 farmed	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 farmed	advmod
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 farmed	aux:pass
24	farmed	farm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 woven	parataxis
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 silkworms	case
26	silkworms	silkworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 farmed	obl
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 eat	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 eat	nsubj
29	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 farmed	advcl
30	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	29 eat	obj
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 each	fixed
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 woven	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weave	past · passive		a golden cape	the silk of million golden weaver spiders in Madagascar		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: subject=Product from silk=Material
2	not farm	can · passive		spiders		like silkworms	vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	eat	present	silkworms = silkworm	each			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=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:14.

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): R7-rel-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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