Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs, sentence 6

Orb weavers build a fresh round web, often every day or night, with a sticky spiral across strong spokes, and many eat the old web to recycle the silk.

Who acts: Orb weavers, many · What happens: build, eat, recycle · To what, where: fresh round web, old web, silk

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 (Orb weavers, many), 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	Orb	orb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 weavers	compound
2	weavers	weaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 build	nsubj
3	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 web	det
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 web	amod
6	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 web	amod
7	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 build	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 day	punct
9	often	often	ADV	_	11 day	advmod
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 build	obl:unmarked
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 night	cc
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 day	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spiral	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 spiral	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 spiral	det
17	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 spiral	amod
18	spiral	spiral	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 build	obl
19	across	across	ADP	_	21 spokes	case
20	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 spokes	amod
21	spokes	spoke	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 spiral	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 eat	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 eat	cc
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 eat	nsubj
25	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 build	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 web	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 web	amod
28	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eat	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 recycle	mark
30	recycle	recycle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 eat	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 silk	det
32	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 recycle	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 build	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	Orb weavers	a fresh round web	day	with a sticky spiral across strong spokes	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent web=Theme with spiral=Source
2	eat	present	many	the old web			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Patient
3	recycle	to-infinitive	many not said here	the silk			tree rules

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:6.

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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