--- title: An orb spider spins spokes of dry silk and then a sticky spiral, and… — Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatu… · tree and pragmatics description: An orb spider spins spokes of dry silk and then a sticky spiral, and it walks mostly on the dry spokes; many eat their old web and spin a new one. Who acts: orb spider, most, many. 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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 (orb spider, most, many), 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:6 # text = An orb spider spins spokes of dry silk and then a sticky spiral, and it walks mostly on the dry spokes; many eat their old web and spin a new one. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 orb orb NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 spokes spoke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 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 8 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 spokes spoke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 nsubj _ _ 25 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 spin spin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spin** | present | a orb spider | spokes of dry silk and a sticky spiral | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent spoke=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | present | most | | | the dry spokes | | mostly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on spoke=Trajectory | | 3 | **eat** | present | many | Spiders's old web | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Patient | | 4 | **spin** | present | many *not said here* | a new one | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=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: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, R6-punct-agree ×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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