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title: They make silk in special organs at the end of the abdomen, called s… — Insects and spiders · tree and pragmatics
description: They make silk in special organs at the end of the abdomen, called spinnerets. Who acts: Spiders, special organs. A sentence of the lesson «Insects and spiders» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Insects and spiders, sentence 4

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They make silk in special organs at the end of the abdomen, called spinnerets.

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**Who acts:** Spiders, special organs · **What happens:** make, call · **To what, where:** silk, special organs, spinnerets · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Insects and spiders» of the world 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 (Spiders, special organs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:072-insects-and-spiders.lesson:4
# text = They make silk in special organs at the end of the abdomen, called spinnerets.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 072-insects-and-spiders.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 ×1
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	organs	organ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	abdomen	abdomen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
15	spinnerets	spinneret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **make** | present | Spiders *= spider* | silk |  | special organs at the end of the abdomen |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset silk=Product |
| 2 | **call** | participle | special organs at the end of the abdomen *not said here* | spinnerets |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:world:072-insects-and-spiders.lesson:4`.

**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 ×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/).

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