--- title: Silk is made of protein, like hair, and its smooth fibres shine and… — Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed · tree and pragmatics description: Silk is made of protein, like hair, and its smooth fibres shine and feel soft; to get the long thread most cocoons are heated, so the pupa inside dies. Who acts: smooth fibres, pupa. A sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» of the biology course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Silkworms and goldfish: two animals Ch…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed/) / 15 # Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 15 Silk is made of protein, like hair, and its smooth fibres shine and feel soft; to get the long thread most cocoons are heated, so the pupa inside dies. **Who acts:** smooth fibres, pupa · **What happens:** make, shine, feel, get, heat, die · **To what, where:** Silk, long thread, most cocoons This is a sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smooth fibres, pupa), 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:15 # text = Silk is made of protein, like hair, and its smooth fibres shine and feel soft; to get the long thread most cocoons are heated, so the pupa inside dies. # 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): no change 1 Silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 protein protein NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 fibres fibre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 shine shine VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 amod _ _ 25 cocoons cocoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 heated heat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl:relcl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 pupa pupa NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 inside inside ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 . . 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 | **make** | present · passive | | Silk | | | | of protein; like hair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **shine** | present | hair's smooth fibres | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **feel** | present | hair's smooth fibres *not said here* | | | | | soft *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | hair's smooth fibres *not said here* | the long thread | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thread=Stimulus | | 5 | **heat** | present · passive | | most cocoons | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **die** | present | the pupa | | | | | inside *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:15`. **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): no change. **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: [Silkworms and goldfish: two animals Ch…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed/14/) - next →: [Silkworms and goldfish: two animals Ch…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed/)