--- title: The spider feels vibrations through the threads and can tell where t… — Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk · tree and pragmatics description: The spider feels vibrations through the threads and can tell where the prey is and how big it is; many web spiders see poorly and read the web like a telephone line. Who acts: spider, prey, many web spiders. 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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 (spider, prey, many web spiders), 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:6 # text = The spider feels vibrations through the threads and can tell where the prey is and how big it is; many web spiders see poorly and read the web like a telephone line. # 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 2 det _ _ 2 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 vibrations vibration NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 threads thread NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 11 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 17 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 17 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 poorly poorly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 read read VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 telephone telephone NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | present | the spider | vibrations | | the threads | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent vibration=Theme through thread=Location | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | the spider *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | the prey | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | present | many web spiders | | | | | poorly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **read** | present | many web spiders *not said here* | the web | | | | like a telephone line | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Topic | 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:6`. **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. 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