--- title: Every animal has its own trick for the cold months: the squirrel bur… — Forests: woodland through the year and the great… · tree and pragmatics description: Every animal has its own trick for the cold months: the squirrel buries acorns, the hedgehog sleeps through winter in a nest of leaves, the owl keeps hunting in the dark. Who acts: animal, squirrel, hedgehog, owl. A sentence of the lesson «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern fo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/12-forests-woodland-through-the-year/2/) [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/) / [Forests: woodland through the year and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/12-forests-woodland-through-the-year/) / 2 # Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest, sentence 2 Every animal has its own trick for the cold months: the squirrel buries acorns, the hedgehog sleeps through winter in a nest of leaves, the owl keeps hunting in the dark. **Who acts:** animal, squirrel, hedgehog, owl · **What happens:** have, bury, sleep, keep, hunt, trick · **To what, where:** own trick, acorns, nest, dark This is a sentence of the lesson «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» 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 (animal, squirrel, hedgehog, owl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson:2 # text = Every animal has its own trick for the cold months: the squirrel buries acorns, the hedgehog sleeps through winter in a nest of leaves, the owl keeps hunting in the dark. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 squirrel squirrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 buries bury VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 acorns acorn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hedgehog hedgehog NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 sleeps sleep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 through through ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 31 hunting hunt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 xcomp _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . 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 | **have** | present | every animal | animal's own trick | | | for the cold months | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient | | 2 | **bury** | present | the squirrel | acorns | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acorn=Theme | | 3 | **sleep** | present | the hedgehog | | | a nest of leaves | winter | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=Location | | 4 | **keep** | present | the owl | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hunt** | gerund | the owl *not said here* | | | the dark | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in dark=Location | | 6 | **trick** | | animal | | | | for the cold months | | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl | 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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