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title: Spiders struggle on very smooth, wet surfaces, so a spider in the ba… — Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites · tree and pragmatics
description: Spiders struggle on very smooth, wet surfaces, so a spider in the bath usually fell in or came from outside, not up the drain. Who acts: Spiders. A sentence of the lesson «Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites, sentence 13

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Spiders struggle on very smooth, wet surfaces, so a spider in the bath usually fell in or came from outside, not up the drain.

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**Who acts:** Spiders · **What happens:** struggle, fell in, come · **To what, where:** smooth wet surfaces, drain

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites» 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 (Spiders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites.lesson:13
# text = Spiders struggle on very smooth, wet surfaces, so a spider in the bath usually fell in or came from outside, not up the drain.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites.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	Spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	struggle	struggle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	surfaces	surface	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fell	fell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	20	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	drain	drain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **struggle** | present | Spiders |  |  | smooth wet surfaces |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fell in** | past | Spiders *not said here* |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | Spiders *not said here* |  |  | the drain |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from outside=Initial\_Location up drain=Destination |

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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.

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**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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