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title: The diving bell spider of European ponds lives underwater in a silk… — Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatu… · tree and pragmatics
description: The diving bell spider of European ponds lives underwater in a silk tent filled with air from the surface. Who acts: bell spider. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 18

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The diving bell spider of European ponds lives underwater in a silk tent filled with air from the surface.

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**Who acts:** bell spider · **What happens:** live, fill · **To what, where:** silk tent, surface

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures» 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 (bell spider), 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:18
# text = The diving bell spider of European ponds lives underwater in a silk tent filled with air from the surface.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	diving	diving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	underwater	underwater	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **live** | present | the bell spider of European ponds |  |  | a silk tent |  | underwater *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tent=Location |
| 2 | **fill** | participle |  | a silk tent *not said here* |  | the surface |  | with air | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with air=Instrument |

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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:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.lesson:18`.

**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): no change. **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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