--- title: An orb-weaver spider waits on its sticky web and feels the vibration… — How animals hunt · tree and pragmatics description: An orb-weaver spider waits on its sticky web and feels the vibrations of trapped insects through tiny hairs on its legs; for its weight, spider silk is stronger than steel. Who acts: weaver spider, spider silk, trapped insects. A sentence of the lesson «How animals hunt» of the biology course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/8/) [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/) / [How animals hunt](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/) / 8 # How animals hunt, sentence 8 An orb-weaver spider waits on its sticky web and feels the vibrations of trapped insects through tiny hairs on its legs; for its weight, spider silk is stronger than steel. **Who acts:** weaver spider, spider silk, trapped insects · **What happens:** wait, feel, trap, be, vibrate · **To what, where:** sticky web, vibrations, tiny hairs This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals hunt» 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 (weaver spider, spider silk, trapped insects), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:052-how-animals-hunt.lesson:8 # text = An orb-weaver spider waits on its sticky web and feels the vibrations of trapped insects through tiny hairs on its legs; for its weight, spider silk is stronger than steel. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 052-how-animals-hunt.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 2 orb orb NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 weaver weaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound 6 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 vibrations vibration NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 trapped trap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 through through ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 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 20 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 parataxis _ _ 33 than than ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 steel steel NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **wait** | present | a weaver spider | | | sound's sticky web | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on web=Location | | 2 | **feel** | present | a weaver spider *not said here* | the vibrations of trapped insects | | tiny hairs on sound's legs | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent vibration=Theme through hair=Location | | 3 | **trap** | participle | | | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | spider silk | | | | | for sound's weight; than steel; strong *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **vibrate** | | trapped insects | | | | | | nom vibration «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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:052-how-animals-hunt.lesson:8`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [How animals hunt, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/7/) - next →: [How animals hunt, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/)