--- title: The spider spins it from silk that comes out of its body as a liquid… — Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk · tree and pragmatics description: The spider spins it from silk that comes out of its body as a liquid and hardens as it is pulled out of little nozzles called spinnerets at the back of its body. Who acts: spider, silk, little nozzles. 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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 (spider, silk, little nozzles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk.lesson:1 # text = The spider spins it from silk that comes out of its body as a liquid and hardens as it is pulled out of little nozzles called spinnerets at the back of its body. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 out out ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:ccomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 hardens harden VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 22 out out ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 nozzles nozzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 spinnerets spinneret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **spin** | present | the spider | fence | | silk | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme from silk=Trajectory | | 2 | **come out** | present | silk | fence's body | | | | as a liquid | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient body=Result | | 3 | **harden** | present | silk *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **pull out** | present · passive | | fence | | little nozzles | | at the back of fence's body | tree rules | | 5 | **call** | participle | little nozzles *not said here* | spinnerets | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spinneret=Recipient | 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:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk.lesson:1`. **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, 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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