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title: Watch a jumping spider on a windowsill: it turns, looks right at you… — Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites · tree and pragmatics
description: Watch a jumping spider on a windowsill: it turns, looks right at you with two big front eyes, ties on a safety thread and leaps onto a fly many times its own length away. Who acts: you, fly. A sentence of the lesson «Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites» of the biology course of Mova's
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# Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites, sentence 4

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Watch a jumping spider on a windowsill: it turns, looks right at you with two big front eyes, ties on a safety thread and leaps onto a fly many times its own length away.

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**Who acts:** you, fly · **What happens:** watch, jump, turn, look, tie, leap · **To what, where:** jumping spider, windowsill

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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 (you, fly), 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:4
# text = Watch a jumping spider on a windowsill: it turns, looks right at you with two big front eyes, ties on a safety thread and leaps onto a fly many times its own length away.
# 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	Watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:parataxis
13	right	right	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	ties	tie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	leaps	leap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod:unmarked	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | a jumping spider |  | a windowsill |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Theme |
| 2 | **jump** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | present | fly | a windowsill *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme windowsill=Result |
| 4 | **look** | present | fly *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at you; with two big front eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme |
| 5 | **tie** | present | fly *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on a safety thread | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on thread=Co-Patient |
| 6 | **leap** | present | fly *not said here* |  |  |  |  | onto a fly; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto fly=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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**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.

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