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title: The spider walks mostly on the dry spokes and has special claws and… — Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk · tree and pragmatics
description: The spider walks mostly on the dry spokes and has special claws and hairs on its feet; only the spiral carries sticky glue drops. Who acts: spider, spiral. A sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, sentence 7

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The spider walks mostly on the dry spokes and has special claws and hairs on its feet; only the spiral carries sticky glue drops.

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**Who acts:** spider, spiral · **What happens:** walk, have, carry · **To what, where:** dry spokes, special claws, feet, sticky glue drops

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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 (spider, spiral), 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:7
# text = The spider walks mostly on the dry spokes and has special claws and hairs on its feet; only the spiral carries sticky glue drops.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	spokes	spoke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det
21	spiral	spiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
23	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	glue	glue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | the spider |  |  | the dry spokes |  | mostly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on spoke=Trajectory |
| 2 | **have** | present | the spider *not said here* | special claws and hairs |  | spider's feet |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient |
| 3 | **carry** | present | the spiral | sticky glue drops |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Theme |

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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:7`.

**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 ×2, 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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