Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 7
Spider silk is a protein made as a liquid and pulled out through spinnerets; some silk is stronger than steel of the same weight and can stretch a lot.
Who acts: Spider silk, silk · What happens: be, make, pull out, stretch · To what, where: protein, spinnerets, lot
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures» 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, 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 | Spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 silk | compound |
| 2 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 protein | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 protein | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 protein | det |
| 5 | protein | protein | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 protein | acl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 liquid | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 liquid | det |
| 9 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pulled | cc |
| 11 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 made | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 pulled | compound:prt |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 spinnerets | case |
| 14 | spinnerets | spinneret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pulled | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 stronger | punct |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 silk | det |
| 17 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stronger | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 stronger | cop |
| 19 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 protein | parataxis |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 steel | case |
| 21 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stronger | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 weight | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 weight | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 weight | amod |
| 25 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 steel | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 stretch | cc |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 stretch | aux |
| 28 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stronger | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 lot | det |
| 30 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stretch | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 protein | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Spider silk | a protein | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a protein not said here | as a liquid | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | pull out | participle | spinnerets | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | some silk | than steel of the same weight; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stretch | can | some silk not said here | a lot | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lot=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:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.lesson:7.
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): 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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