--- title: For its weight, some spider silk is stronger than steel and very str… — Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk · tree and pragmatics description: For its weight, some spider silk is stronger than steel and very stretchy, because its proteins are lined up in a special way; Darwin's bark spider in Madagascar spins webs across rivers up to about 25 metres wide. Who acts: spider silk, bark spider. 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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, bark spider), 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:8 # text = For its weight, some spider silk is stronger than steel and very stretchy, because its proteins are lined up in a special way; Darwin's bark spider in Madagascar spins webs across rivers up to about 25 metres wide. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 6 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 10 than than ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 stretchy stretchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 proteins protein NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 lined line VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 Darwin Darwin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:compound 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 34 webs web NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 across across ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 up up ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 37 fixed _ _ 39 about about ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 42 wide wide ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some spider silk | | | | | for spider's weight; than steel; up 25 metres; strong, wide *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | some spider silk *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **line up** | present · passive | | spider's proteins | | | | in a special way | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in way=Theme | | 4 | **spin** | present | Darwin's bark spider in Madagascar | webs | | rivers | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent web=Theme across river=Trajectory | 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: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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk/7/) - next →: [Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk/)