Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, sentence 4
For its weight, some spider silk is stronger than steel and very stretchy, which is why scientists study it so closely.
Who acts: spider silk · What happens: be
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), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 weight | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 weight | nmod:poss |
| 3 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stronger | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 weight | punct |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 silk | det |
| 6 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 silk | compound |
| 7 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stronger | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stronger | cop |
| 9 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 steel | case |
| 11 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stronger | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stretchy | cc |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 stretchy | advmod |
| 14 | stretchy | stretchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stronger | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 study | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 study | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 study | cop |
| 18 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 study | advmod |
| 19 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 study | nsubj |
| 20 | study | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stronger | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 study | obj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 closely | advmod |
| 23 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 20 study | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stronger | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some spider silk | for spider's weight; than steel; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | some spider silk not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | closely, study property | tree rules |
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:4.
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): no change. 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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