--- title: Spiders stretch their legs out by pumping blood into them, so when a… — Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatu… · tree and pragmatics description: Spiders stretch their legs out by pumping blood into them, so when a spider dies the pressure is gone and its legs curl underneath it. Who acts: Spiders, spider, pressure, legs. 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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 (Spiders, spider, pressure, legs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.lesson:10 # text = Spiders stretch their legs out by pumping blood into them, so when a spider dies the pressure is gone and its legs curl underneath it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stretch stretch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 out out ADV RB _ 2 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advmod 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 pumping pump VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 8 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 curl curl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 25 underneath underneath ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stretch out** | present | Spiders | Spiders's legs | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 2 | **pump** | gerund | Spiders *not said here* | blood | | | | into Spiders *= spider* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme into they=Destination | | 3 | **die** | present | a spider | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **is** | present | the pressure | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **curl** | present | pressure's legs | | | | | underneath pressure | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | 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:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.lesson:10`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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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