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title: Real squirrels bury nuts and forget many of them, so the nuts grow i… — Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glypt… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real squirrels bury nuts and forget many of them, so the nuts grow into new trees. Who acts: Real squirrels, nuts. A sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 11

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Real squirrels bury nuts and forget many of them, so the nuts grow into new trees.

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**Who acts:** Real squirrels, nuts · **What happens:** bury, forget, grow · **To what, where:** nuts, many, new trees

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» 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 (Real squirrels, nuts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.lesson:11
# text = Real squirrels bury nuts and forget many of them, so the nuts grow into new trees.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.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	Real	real	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	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **bury** | present | Real squirrels | nuts |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | infinitive | Real squirrels *not said here* | many of squirrels |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | present | the nuts |  |  |  |  | into new trees *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result |

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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:biology:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.lesson:11`.

**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/).

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