Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs, sentence 8

Many young spiders travel by ballooning: they let out threads from a high point and float away on the air, sometimes far out to sea.

Who acts: Many young spiders, webs · What happens: travel, let out, float away · To what, where: threads, high point, air

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 (Many young spiders, webs), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spiders	amod
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spiders	amod
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 travel	nsubj
4	travel	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 ballooning	case
6	ballooning	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 travel	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	nsubj
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 travel	parataxis
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 let	compound:prt
11	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 let	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 point	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 point	det
14	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 point	amod
15	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 float	cc
17	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 let	conj
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 float	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 air	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 air	det
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 float	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 out	punct
23	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 out	advmod
24	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 out	advmod
25	out	out	ADV	_	4 travel	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 sea	case
27	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 out	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 travel	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	travel	present	Many young spiders			by ballooning; out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by balloon=Trajectory
2	let out	past	webs = web	threads	a high point		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme
3	float away	present	webs = web not said here		the air	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on air=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:8.

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 ×1, 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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