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title: An orb web is a wheel of strong spokes with a sticky spiral that cat… — Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk · tree and pragmatics
description: An orb web is a wheel of strong spokes with a sticky spiral that catches flying insects; dew on the silk shows the pattern, and a garden spider often eats its old web and builds a new one nearly every day. Who acts: orb web, sticky spiral, dew, garden spider. A sentence of the lesson «Animal builder
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# Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, sentence 5

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An orb web is a wheel of strong spokes with a sticky spiral that catches flying insects; dew on the silk shows the pattern, and a garden spider often eats its old web and builds a new one nearly every day.

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**Who acts:** orb web, sticky spiral, dew, garden spider · **What happens:** be, catch, fly, show, eat, build · **To what, where:** wheel, flying insects, pattern, old web, new one

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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 (orb web, sticky spiral, dew, garden 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:5
# text = An orb web is a wheel of strong spokes with a sticky spiral that catches flying insects; dew on the silk shows the pattern, and a garden spider often eats its old web and builds a new one nearly every day.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	orb	orb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	spokes	spoke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	spiral	spiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	often	often	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	det	_	_
43	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl:unmarked	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a orb web | a wheel |  |  |  | of strong spokes with a sticky spiral | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | present | a sticky spiral | flying insects |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **show** | present | dew on the silk | the pattern |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pattern=Recipient |
| 5 | **eat** | present | a garden spider | spider's old web |  |  |  | often *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Patient |
| 6 | **build** | present | a garden spider *not said here* | a new one |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product |

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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:5`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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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