--- title: The web is a wheel of dry spokes with a sticky spiral, and the spide… — Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk · tree and pragmatics description: The web is a wheel of dry spokes with a sticky spiral, and the spider sits waiting, feeling the threads the way you feel a phone buzz in your pocket. Who acts: web, spider, you. 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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 (web, spider, you), 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:2 # text = The web is a wheel of dry spokes with a sticky spiral, and the spider sits waiting, feeling the threads the way you feel a phone buzz in your pocket. # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 spokes spoke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 spiral spiral NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 threads thread NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 buzz buzz NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 . . 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 | **is a** | present | the web | a wheel | | | | of dry spokes with a sticky spiral | tree rules | | 2 | **sit** | present | the spider | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wait** | gerund | the spider *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **feel** | gerund | the spider *not said here* | the threads | | | | the way *obl:unmarked* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme | | 5 | **feel** | present | you | a phone buzz | | your pocket | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent buzz=Theme in pocket=Location | 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:2`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk/1/) - next →: [Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk/)