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title: Real silk of Spider-Man's thickness could not stop a train, but silk… — Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs · tree and pragmatics
description: Real silk of Spider-Man's thickness could not stop a train, but silk is very good at soaking up energy by stretching. Who acts: Real silk, silk. A sentence of the lesson «Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs, sentence 15

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Real silk of Spider-Man's thickness could not stop a train, but silk is very good at soaking up energy by stretching.

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**Who acts:** Real silk, silk · **What happens:** not stop, be, soak up, stretch · **To what, where:** train, energy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs» 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 (Real silk, silk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs.lesson:15
# text = Real silk of Spider-Man's thickness could not stop a train, but silk is very good at soaking up energy by stretching.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	Spider	Spider	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	thickness	thickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis
20	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	soaking	soak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stop** | could | Real silk of Spider Man's thickness | a train |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality train=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | silk |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **soak up** | gerund | silk *not said here* | energy |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent energy=Source |
| 4 | **stretch** | gerund | silk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs.lesson:15`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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