---
title: The diving bell spider makes a silk tent under water and fills it wi… — Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk · tree and pragmatics
description: The diving bell spider makes a silk tent under water and fills it with air carried from the surface; it is the only spider that lives almost all its life under water. Who acts: diving bell spider, spider, only spider. A sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk» of the biology 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk/11/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk/) / 11

# Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, sentence 11

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The diving bell spider makes a silk tent under water and fills it with air carried from the surface; it is the only spider that lives almost all its life under water.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** diving bell spider, spider, only spider · **What happens:** make, fill, carry, be, live · **To what, where:** silk tent, water, spider, air, surface, only spider

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (diving bell spider, spider, only spider), 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:11
# text = The diving bell spider makes a silk tent under water and fills it with air carried from the surface; it is the only spider that lives almost all its life under water.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	diving	diving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	under	under	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the diving bell spider | a silk tent |  | water |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tent=Product |
| 2 | **fill** | present | the diving bell spider *not said here* | spider |  |  |  | with air | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with air=Instrument |
| 3 | **carry** | participle |  | air *not said here* |  | the surface |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from surface=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is a** | present | spider | the only spider |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** | present | the only spider | spider's life |  | water |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:11`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk/10/)
- next →: [Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk/12/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk/)

