--- title: A silkworm spins a cocoon from one single thread of liquid silk over… — Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed · tree and pragmatics description: A silkworm spins a cocoon from one single thread of liquid silk over two or three days, and the thread can be longer than five football pitches. Who acts: silkworm, thread. 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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 (silkworm, thread), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:12 # text = A silkworm spins a cocoon from one single thread of liquid silk over two or three days, and the thread can be longer than five football pitches. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 silkworm silkworm NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cocoon cocoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 8 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 liquid liquid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 over over ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 conj _ _ 17 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 24 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 conj _ _ 25 than than ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 27 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 pitches pitch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spin** | present | a silkworm | a cocoon | | one single thread of liquid silk | day | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cocoon=Theme from thread=Trajectory | | 2 | **is** | can | the thread | | | | | than five football pitches; long *property* | tree rules | 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:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:12`. **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, R6-punct-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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