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title: Many young spiders travel by ballooning: they let out threads from a… — Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs · tree and pragmatics
description: Many young spiders travel by ballooning: they let out threads from a high point and float away on the air, sometimes far out to sea. Who acts: Many young spiders, webs. A sentence of the lesson «Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs, sentence 8

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Many young spiders travel by ballooning: they let out threads from a high point and float away on the air, sometimes far out to sea.

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**Who acts:** Many young spiders, webs · **What happens:** travel, let out, float away · **To what, where:** threads, high point, air

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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 (Many young spiders, webs), 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:8
# text = Many young spiders travel by ballooning: they let out threads from a high point and float away on the air, sometimes far out to sea.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	travel	travel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ballooning	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	float	float	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	25	advmod	_	_
24	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **travel** | present | Many young spiders |  |  |  |  | by ballooning; out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by balloon=Trajectory |
| 2 | **let out** | past | webs *= web* | threads |  | a high point |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme |
| 3 | **float away** | present | webs *= web* *not said here* |  |  | the air |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on air=Trajectory |

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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:8`.

**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, R8-pos-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.

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

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