Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, sentence 1

The spider spins it from silk that comes out of its body as a liquid and hardens as it is pulled out of little nozzles called spinnerets at the back of its body.

Who acts: spider, silk, little nozzles · What happens: spin, come out, harden, pull out, call · To what, where: fence, silk, body, little nozzles, spinnerets · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk» 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 (spider, silk, little nozzles), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spider	det
2	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spins	nsubj
3	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spins	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 silk	case
6	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spins	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 comes	nsubj
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 silk	acl:relcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 body	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 body	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 body	nmod:poss
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comes	obl
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 liquid	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 liquid	det
15	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comes	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hardens	cc
17	hardens	harden	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 liquid	conj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 pulled	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pulled	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 pulled	aux:pass
21	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 hardens	advcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 nozzles	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 nozzles	case
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 nozzles	amod
25	nozzles	nozzle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 pulled	obl
26	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 nozzles	acl
27	spinnerets	spinneret	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 called	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 back	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 back	det
30	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pulled	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 body	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 body	nmod:poss
33	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 back	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spins	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	spin	present	the spider	fence	silk		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme from silk=Trajectory
2	come out	present	silk	fence's body		as a liquid	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient body=Result
3	harden	present	silk not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	pull out	present · passive		fence	little nozzles	at the back of fence's body	tree rules
5	call	participle	little nozzles not said here	spinnerets			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spinneret=Recipient

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:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk.lesson:1.

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, 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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