Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites, sentence 5

Many spiders walk up glass and across ceilings using thousands of tiny foot hairs that grip by small forces between molecules; geckos use the same trick.

Who acts: Many spiders, ceilings, tiny foot hairs, geckos · What happens: walk up, use, grip · To what, where: glass, thousands, same trick

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 (Many spiders, ceilings, tiny foot hairs, geckos), 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	2 spiders	amod
2	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walk	nsubj
3	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 walk	compound:prt
5	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walk	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ceilings	cc
7	across	across	ADP	_	8 ceilings	case
8	ceilings	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 glass	conj
9	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 ceilings	acl
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 using	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 hairs	case
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hairs	amod
13	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hairs	compound
14	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 thousands	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 grip	nsubj
16	grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hairs	acl:relcl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 forces	case
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 forces	amod
19	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grip	obl
20	between	between	ADP	_	21 molecules	case
21	molecules	molecule	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 forces	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 use	punct
23	geckos	gecko	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 use	nsubj
24	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 trick	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 trick	amod
27	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 use	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk up	present	Many spiders	glass and ceilings		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme glass=Trajectory
2	use	gerund	ceilings not said here	thousands of tiny foot hairs		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient
3	grip	present	tiny foot hairs		by small forces between molecules	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent by force=Theme
4	use	present	geckos	the same trick		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient

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:5.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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