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title: A wolf spider mother carries her egg sac, and when the babies hatch… — Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites · tree and pragmatics
description: A wolf spider mother carries her egg sac, and when the babies hatch they ride on her back for days, sometimes over a hundred of them. Who acts: spider mother, babies. A sentence of the lesson «Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites, sentence 16

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A wolf spider mother carries her egg sac, and when the babies hatch they ride on her back for days, sometimes over a hundred of them.

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**Who acts:** spider mother, babies · **What happens:** carry, hatch, ride · **To what, where:** egg sac, back

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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 (spider mother, babies), 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:16
# text = A wolf spider mother carries her egg sac, and when the babies hatch they ride on her back for days, sometimes over a hundred of them.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sac	sac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hatch	hatch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | a spider mother | mother's egg sac |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sac=Theme |
| 2 | **hatch** | present | the babies |  |  |  |  |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **ride** | present | babies *= baby* |  |  | mother's back | day | over a hundred of spiders | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over hundred=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.

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**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:148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites.lesson:16`.

**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. **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/).

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