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title: Web spiders feel vibrations so well they can tell a trapped insect f… — Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites · tree and pragmatics
description: Web spiders feel vibrations so well they can tell a trapped insect from a leaf or a raindrop. Who acts: Web spiders, 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 the pragmatics of ev
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# Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites, sentence 7

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Web spiders feel vibrations so well they can tell a trapped insect from a leaf or a raindrop.

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**Who acts:** Web spiders, spiders · **What happens:** feel, tell, trap · **To what, where:** vibrations, trapped insect, leaf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Web spiders, 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:7
# text = Web spiders feel vibrations so well they can tell a trapped insect from a leaf or a raindrop.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	vibrations	vibration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	raindrop	raindrop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **feel** | present | Web spiders | vibrations |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vibration=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | spiders *= spider* |  | a trapped insect | a leaf or a raindrop |  | well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent insect=Recipient |
| 3 | **trap** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:7`.

**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, 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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