--- title: Grey squirrels bury thousands of nuts in autumn to eat in winter, an… — What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitti… · tree and pragmatics description: Grey squirrels bury thousands of nuts in autumn to eat in winter, and forgotten acorns can grow into new oak trees, so squirrels help plant their own woods. Who acts: Grey squirrels, forgotten acorns, squirrels. A sentence of the lesson «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/10/) [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/) / [What a habitat is: home, food, shelter…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/) / 10 # What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in, sentence 10 Grey squirrels bury thousands of nuts in autumn to eat in winter, and forgotten acorns can grow into new oak trees, so squirrels help plant their own woods. **Who acts:** Grey squirrels, forgotten acorns, squirrels · **What happens:** bury, eat, forget, grow, help, plant · **To what, where:** thousands, new oak trees, own woods This is a sentence of the lesson «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» 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 (Grey squirrels, forgotten acorns, squirrels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:001-what-a-habitat-is.lesson:10 # text = Grey squirrels bury thousands of nuts in autumn to eat in winter, and forgotten acorns can grow into new oak trees, so squirrels help plant their own woods. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 001-what-a-habitat-is.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): no change 1 Grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 squirrels squirrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bury bury VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 acorns acorn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 squirrels squirrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 plant plant VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bury** | present | Grey squirrels | thousands of nuts | | | autumn | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme | | 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Grey squirrels *not said here* | | | | winter | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **forget** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | can | forgotten acorns | | | | | into new oak trees *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result | | 5 | **help** | present | squirrels | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **plant** | infinitive | squirrels *not said here* | squirrels's own woods | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=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:001-what-a-habitat-is.lesson:10`. **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): no change. **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: [What a habitat is: home, food, shelter…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/9/) - next →: [What a habitat is: home, food, shelter…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/1-what-a-habitat-is/)