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title: What would happen if a spider walked across the sticky spiral of its… — Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a spider walked across the sticky spiral of its own web carelessly? Test 7 of lesson 244 «Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 7 · Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk

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What would happen if a spider walked across the sticky spiral of its own web carelessly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** spider · **What happens:** happen, walk · **To what, where:** sticky spiral

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This is test 7 of lesson 244 «Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk:t7:1
# text = What would happen if a spider walked across the sticky spiral of its own web carelessly?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	spiral	spiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a spider |  |  | the sticky spiral of spider's own web |  | carelessly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across spiral=Trajectory |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The web would turn to water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk:t7:o1:1
# text = The web would turn to water
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | the web | water |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It could get stuck, which is why it keeps to the dry spokes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk:t7:o2:1
# text = It could get stuck, which is why it keeps to the dry spokes
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	spokes	spoke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | could | It |  |  |  |  | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | present | it |  |  |  |  | to the dry spokes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The spider would sink through the web

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk:t7:o3:1
# text = The spider would sink through the web
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | would | the spider |  |  | the web |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing at all, because every thread of the whole web is dry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk:t7:o4:1
# text = Nothing at all, because every thread of the whole web is dry
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | every thread of the whole web |  |  |  |  | dry *property* | tree rules |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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