Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs, sentence 2
Weight for weight, some spider silk is stronger than steel and far stretchier, so it soaks up the crash of a flying insect without snapping, but a real thread is far too thin to hold a person.
Who acts: spider silk, silk, flying insect, real thread · What happens: be, soak up, fly, snap, hold, crash · To what, where: crash, person
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 (spider silk, silk, flying insect, real thread), 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 | Weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stronger | obl |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 weight | case |
| 3 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Weight | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stronger | punct |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 silk | det |
| 6 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 silk | compound |
| 7 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stronger | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stronger | cop |
| 9 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 steel | case |
| 11 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stronger | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stretchier | cc |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 stretchier | advmod |
| 14 | stretchier | stretchy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 stronger | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 soaks | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 soaks | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 soaks | nsubj |
| 18 | soaks | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stronger | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 soaks | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 crash | det |
| 21 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 soaks | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 insect | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 insect | det |
| 24 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 insect | amod |
| 25 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crash | nmod |
| 26 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 27 snapping | mark |
| 27 | snapping | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 insect | acl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 thin | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 thin | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 thread | det |
| 31 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 thread | amod |
| 32 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 thin | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 thin | cop |
| 34 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 thin | advmod |
| 35 | too | too | ADV | _ | 36 thin | advmod |
| 36 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stretchier | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 hold | mark |
| 38 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 thin | advcl |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 person | det |
| 40 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hold | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stronger | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some spider silk | than steel; Weight for weight obl; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | some spider silk not said here | far property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | soak up | present | silk | the crash of a flying insect | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent crash=Source | ||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | snap | gerund | a flying insect not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | present | a real thread | far, thin property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | hold | to-infinitive | a real thread not said here | a person | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | ||||
| 8 | crash | a flying insect | nom crash «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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:2.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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