Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, sentence 13

The bolas spider makes no web: it swings a single line with a sticky blob that smells like a female moth, and male moths fly in and get caught.

Who acts: bolas spider, spider, sticky blob, male moths · What happens: make, swing, smell, fly in, catch · To what, where: web, single line

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 (bolas spider, spider, sticky blob, male moths), 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	3 spider	det
2	bolas	bola	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spider	compound
3	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 web	det
6	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 swings	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 swings	nsubj
9	swings	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 makes	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 line	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 line	amod
12	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swings	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 blob	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 blob	det
15	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 blob	amod
16	blob	blob	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swings	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 smells	nsubj
18	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 blob	acl:relcl
19	like	like	ADP	_	22 moth	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 moth	det
21	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 moth	amod
22	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 smells	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fly	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fly	cc
25	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 moths	amod
26	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fly	nsubj
27	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 swings	conj
28	in	in	ADV	_	27 fly	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 caught	cc
30	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 caught	aux:pass
31	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 fly	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 makes	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	the bolas spider	no web		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset web=Product
2	swing	present	spider	a single line	with a sticky blob	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme line=Result
3	smell	present	a sticky blob		like a female moth	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fly in	present	male moths			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	catch	infinitive · passive	male moths not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»

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:13.

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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