--- title: Many young spiders let out a thread and float away on the wind, whic… — Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk · tree and pragmatics description: Many young spiders let out a thread and float away on the wind, which is called ballooning; experiments suggest the Earth's electric field may help to lift them, and they have landed on ships far out at sea. Who acts: Many young spiders, experiments, electric field. 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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 (Many young spiders, experiments, electric field), 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:9 # text = Many young spiders let out a thread and float away on the wind, which is called ballooning; experiments suggest the Earth's electric field may help to lift them, and they have landed on ships far out at sea. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 float float VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 away away ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 18 ballooning balloon VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 experiments experiment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 suggest suggest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 landed land VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 37 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 39 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 40 advmod _ _ 40 out out ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 41 at at ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:obl 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let out** | infinitive | Many young spiders | a thread | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme | | 2 | **float away** | present | Many young spiders *not said here* | | | the wind | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wind=Trajectory | | 3 | **call** | present · passive | | the wind | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **balloon** | gerund | | | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | experiments | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **help** | may | the Earth's electric field | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **lift** | to-infinitive | the Earth's electric field *not said here* | experiments *= experiment* | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 8 | **land** | present · perfect | experiments *= experiment* | | | ships | | out *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on ship=Destination | 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:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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