--- title: A garden spider often waits in a corner of its web holding a signal… — Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones · tree and pragmatics description: A garden spider often waits in a corner of its web holding a signal thread, and feels the web shake when an insect is caught. Who acts: garden spider. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden spider), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:6 # text = A garden spider often waits in a corner of its web holding a signal thread, and feels the web shake when an insect is caught. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 holding hold VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 shake shake NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl:relcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | present | a garden spider | | | a corner of spider's web | | often *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location | | 2 | **hold** | gerund | a garden spider *not said here* | a signal thread | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme | | 3 | **feel** | present | a garden spider *not said here* | the web shake | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shake=Theme | | 4 | **catch** | present · passive | | a insect | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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. **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:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:6`. **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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