--- title: Grey squirrels bury nuts in many separate spots and find many by mem… — Forests: woodland through the year and the great… · tree and pragmatics description: Grey squirrels bury nuts in many separate spots and find many by memory and smell, but the acorns they and jays forget can grow into new oak trees. Who acts: Grey squirrels, acorns. 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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 (Grey squirrels, acorns), 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:6 # text = Grey squirrels bury nuts in many separate spots and find many by memory and smell, but the acorns they and jays forget can grow into new oak trees. # 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): R1-cc-next ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 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 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 10 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJ:PronType=Ind 12 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 15 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 acorns acorn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc 22 jays jay NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 forget forget VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 . . 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 | nuts | | many separate spots | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nut=Theme in spot=Destination | | 2 | **find** | present | Grey squirrels *not said here* | many | | | | by memory and smell | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic | | 3 | **forget** | present | acorns *= acorn* | the acorns *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | can | the acorns | | | | | into new oak trees *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result | 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:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson:6`. **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): R1-cc-next ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. 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