Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones, sentence 5

Spiders make silk in their bodies and spin it out of spinnerets; they make different silks for different jobs, such as sticky threads, strong frame threads and egg sacs.

Who acts: Spiders, centipedes · What happens: make, spin · To what, where: silk, bodies, spider, spinnerets, different silks

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones» 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 (Spiders, centipedes), 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	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 bodies	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bodies	nmod:poss
6	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spin	cc
8	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spin	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	12 spinnerets	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 spinnerets	case
12	spinnerets	spinneret	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spin	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	nsubj
15	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	parataxis
16	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 silks	amod
17	silks	silk	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 make	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 jobs	case
19	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 jobs	amod
20	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 make	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 threads	punct
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	25 threads	case
23	as	as	ADP	_	22 such	fixed
24	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 threads	amod
25	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 silks	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 threads	punct
27	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 threads	amod
28	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 threads	compound
29	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 threads	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sacs	cc
31	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sacs	compound
32	sacs	sac	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 silks	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present	Spiders	silk	centipedes's bodies		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset silk=Product
2	spin	present	Spiders not said here	spider	spinnerets		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme out spinneret=Trajectory
3	make	present	centipedes = centipede	different silks and sticky threads and strong frame threads and egg sacs		for different jobs	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent silk=Product for job=Asset

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:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.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): R5-strong ×2, 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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