--- title: Spider silk is a protein made as a liquid and pulled out through spi… — Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatu… · tree and pragmatics description: Spider silk is a protein made as a liquid and pulled out through spinnerets; some silk is stronger than steel of the same weight and can stretch a lot. Who acts: Spider silk, silk. 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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, silk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.lesson:7 # text = Spider silk is a protein made as a liquid and pulled out through spinnerets; some silk is stronger than steel of the same weight and can stretch a lot. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.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 Spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 protein protein NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 through through ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 spinnerets spinneret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 17 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 20 than than ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 stretch stretch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 a** | present | Spider silk | a protein | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a protein *not said here* | | | | as a liquid | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **pull out** | participle | | | | spinnerets | | | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | some silk | | | | | than steel of the same weight; strong *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **stretch** | can | some silk *not said here* | a lot | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | 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:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.lesson:7`. **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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