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title: Trapdoor spiders dig burrows with a hinged lid of soil and silk, fee… — Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk · tree and pragmatics
description: Trapdoor spiders dig burrows with a hinged lid of soil and silk, feel insects walk by through trip lines of silk, and some live over 40 years. Who acts: Trapdoor spiders, insects, some. A sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk» of the biology course of Mova's primary school 
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# Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, sentence 10

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Trapdoor spiders dig burrows with a hinged lid of soil and silk, feel insects walk by through trip lines of silk, and some live over 40 years.

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**Who acts:** Trapdoor spiders, insects, some · **What happens:** dig, hinge, feel, walk, live · **To what, where:** burrows, trip lines

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk» 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 (Trapdoor spiders, insects, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk.lesson:10
# text = Trapdoor spiders dig burrows with a hinged lid of soil and silk, feel insects walk by through trip lines of silk, and some live over 40 years.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk.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	Trapdoor	trapdoor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	burrows	burrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hinged	hinge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	feel	feel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obj
16	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	nsubj	_	_
26	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	over	over	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **dig** | present | Trapdoor spiders | burrows |  |  |  | with a hinged lid of soil and silk | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent burrow=Theme with lid=Instrument |
| 2 | **hinge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **feel** | infinitive | Trapdoor spiders *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **walk** | infinitive | insects |  |  | trip lines of silk |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through line=Trajectory |
| 5 | **live** | present | some |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk.lesson:10`.

**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.

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

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