Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs, sentence 7
Weight for weight, some spider silk is stronger than steel and far stretchier; Darwin's bark spider spins webs across rivers up to about 25 metres wide.
Who acts: Weight, bark spider · What happens: be, spin · To what, where: webs, rivers
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 (Weight, bark spider), 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 | nsubj |
| 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 | _ | 9 stronger | punct |
| 16 | Darwin | Darwin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 spider | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Darwin | case |
| 18 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spider | compound |
| 19 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spins | nsubj |
| 20 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stronger | parataxis |
| 21 | webs | web | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spins | obj |
| 22 | across | across | ADP | _ | 23 rivers | case |
| 23 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 webs | nmod |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 metres | case |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 up | fixed |
| 26 | about | about | ADV | _ | 27 25 | advmod |
| 27 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 metres | nummod |
| 28 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 wide | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 21 webs | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | 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 | Weight for weight | than steel; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Weight for weight not said here | far property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | spin | present | Darwin's bark spider | webs | rivers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent web=Theme across river=Trajectory |
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:7.
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): no change. 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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