--- title: The bolas spider makes no web: it swings a single line with a sticky… — Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk · tree and pragmatics description: The bolas spider makes no web: it swings a single line with a sticky blob that smells like a female moth, and male moths fly in and get caught. Who acts: bolas spider, spider, sticky blob, male moths. 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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 (bolas spider, spider, sticky blob, male moths), 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:13 # text = The bolas spider makes no web: it swings a single line with a sticky blob that smells like a female moth, and male moths fly in and get caught. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 bolas bola NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 compound _ _ 3 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 swings swing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 blob blob NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 smells smell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 moth moth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 moths moth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 28 in in ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | the bolas spider | no web | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset web=Product | | 2 | **swing** | present | spider | a single line | | | | with a sticky blob | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme line=Result | | 3 | **smell** | present | a sticky blob | | | | | like a female moth | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fly in** | present | male moths | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **catch** | infinitive · passive | male moths *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» | 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:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk.lesson:13`. **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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