--- title: Some jumping spiders plan a detour, losing sight of their prey befor… — Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bee… · tree and pragmatics description: Some jumping spiders plan a detour, losing sight of their prey before sneaking up from behind; they have eight eyes, and the two big front ones see sharp details. Who acts: jumping spiders, Pigs, two big front ones. A sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Surprising brains: tool-using fish, co…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/) / 15 # Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 15 Some jumping spiders plan a detour, losing sight of their prey before sneaking up from behind; they have eight eyes, and the two big front ones see sharp details. **Who acts:** jumping spiders, Pigs, two big front ones · **What happens:** jump, plan, lose, sneak up, have, see · **To what, where:** detour, sight, eight eyes, sharp details, prey This is a sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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 (jumping spiders, Pigs, two big front ones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:15 # text = Some jumping spiders plan a detour, losing sight of their prey before sneaking up from behind; they have eight eyes, and the two big front ones see sharp details. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 jumping jump VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 plan plan VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 detour detour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 9 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 before before SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 sneaking sneak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 15 up up ADV RB _ 14 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 behind behind ADV RB _ 14 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 21 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 27 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 31 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 details detail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **plan** | present | some jumping spiders | a detour | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detour=Topic | | 3 | **lose** | gerund | some jumping spiders *not said here* | sight of Pigs's prey | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | | 4 | **sneak up** | gerund | some jumping spiders *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from behind=Trajectory | | 5 | **have** | present | Pigs *= pig* | eight eyes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 6 | **see** | present | the two big front ones | sharp details | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer detail=Stimulus | | 7 | **sight** | | | Pigs's prey | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:15`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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