--- title: Small animals are strong for their size, but a spider blown up to hu… — Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites · tree and pragmatics description: Small animals are strong for their size, but a spider blown up to human size would struggle to hold up its own weight, because weight grows much faster than muscle strength. Who acts: Small animals, spider, weight. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Small animals, spider, weight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites.lesson:15 # text = Small animals are strong for their size, but a spider blown up to human size would struggle to hold up its own weight, because weight grows much faster than muscle strength. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 12 blown blow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 struggle struggle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 29 much much ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 xcomp _ _ 31 than than ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 muscle muscle NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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** | present | Small animals | | | | | for animals's size; strong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **blow up** | participle | | a spider *not said here* | human size | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to size=Recipient | | 3 | **struggle** | would | a spider | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hold up** | to-infinitive | a spider *not said here* | size's own weight | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot weight=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | present | weight | | | | | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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](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:148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites.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): 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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