--- title: For example, a garden spider builds a sticky web and waits, while a… — Insects and spiders · tree and pragmatics description: For example, a garden spider builds a sticky web and waits, while a jumping spider spins no web at all: it stalks its prey with its big front eyes and leaps on it like a tiny cat. Who acts: garden spider, jumping spider, web. 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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 (garden spider, jumping spider, web), 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:5 # text = For example, a garden spider builds a sticky web and waits, while a jumping spider spins no web at all: it stalks its prey with its big front eyes and leaps on it like a tiny cat. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 while while SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 jumping jump VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 amod _ _ 17 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 obl _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 stalks stalk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 30 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:amod 31 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 leaps leap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 like like ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **build** | present | a garden spider | a sticky web | | | | for example | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent web=Product for example=Asset | | 2 | **wait** | present | a garden spider *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **jump** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **spin** | present | a jumping spider | no web | | all | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent web=Theme | | 5 | **stalk** | present | web | web's prey | | | | with web's big front eyes | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme | | 6 | **leap** | present | web *not said here* | | | web | | like a tiny cat | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory | 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. 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