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title: Many spiders walk up glass and across ceilings using thousands of ti… — Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites · tree and pragmatics
description: Many spiders walk up glass and across ceilings using thousands of tiny foot hairs that grip by small forces between molecules; geckos use the same trick. Who acts: Many spiders, ceilings, tiny foot hairs, geckos. A sentence of the lesson «Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites» of the bi
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# Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites, sentence 5

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Many spiders walk up glass and across ceilings using thousands of tiny foot hairs that grip by small forces between molecules; geckos use the same trick.

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**Who acts:** Many spiders, ceilings, tiny foot hairs, geckos · **What happens:** walk up, use, grip · **To what, where:** glass, thousands, same trick

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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 (Many spiders, ceilings, tiny foot hairs, geckos), 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:5
# text = Many spiders walk up glass and across ceilings using thousands of tiny foot hairs that grip by small forces between molecules; geckos use the same trick.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ceilings	ceiling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	grip	grip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	molecules	molecule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
23	geckos	gecko	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **walk up** | present | Many spiders | glass and ceilings |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme glass=Trajectory |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | ceilings *not said here* | thousands of tiny foot hairs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient |
| 3 | **grip** | present | tiny foot hairs |  |  |  |  | by small forces between molecules | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent by force=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | present | geckos | the same trick |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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