Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites, sentence 15

Small animals are strong for their size, but a spider blown up to human size would struggle to hold up its own weight, because weight grows much faster than muscle strength.

Who acts: Small animals, spider, weight · What happens: be, blow up, struggle, hold up, grow · To what, where: spider, human size, own weight

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites» 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 (Small animals, spider, weight), 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	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 strong	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	cop
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 size	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 size	nmod:poss
7	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strong	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 struggle	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 struggle	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 spider	det
11	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 struggle	nsubj
12	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 spider	acl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 blown	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 size	case
15	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 size	amod
16	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blown	obl
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 struggle	aux
18	struggle	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 strong	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 hold	mark
20	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 struggle	xcomp
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 hold	compound:prt
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 weight	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 weight	amod
24	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hold	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 grows	punct
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 grows	mark
27	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grows	nsubj
28	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 struggle	advcl
29	much	much	ADV	_	30 faster	advmod
30	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 grows	xcomp
31	than	than	ADP	_	33 strength	case
32	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 strength	compound
33	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 faster	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 strong	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Small animals			for animals's size; strong property	tree rules
2	blow up	participle		a spider not said here	human size		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to size=Recipient
3	struggle	would	a spider				tree rules
4	hold up	to-infinitive	a spider not said here	size's own weight			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot weight=Theme
5	grow	present	weight			fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites.lesson:15.

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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