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title: A spider can make several kinds of silk: sticky silk for catching, s… — Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs · tree and pragmatics
description: A spider can make several kinds of silk: sticky silk for catching, strong dry silk for the web's frame and soft silk for wrapping eggs. Who acts: spider. 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 p
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# Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs, sentence 5

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A spider can make several kinds of silk: sticky silk for catching, strong dry silk for the web's frame and soft silk for wrapping eggs.

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**Who acts:** spider · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** several kinds

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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 (spider), 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:5
# text = A spider can make several kinds of silk: sticky silk for catching, strong dry silk for the web's frame and soft silk for wrapping eggs.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	catching	catching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	wrapping	wrapping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **make** | can | a spider | several kinds of silk |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kind=Product |

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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:5`.

**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.

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

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