--- title: Squirrels are skilled acrobats that solve puzzles to reach bird feed… — Foxes and squirrels · tree and pragmatics description: Squirrels are skilled acrobats that solve puzzles to reach bird feeders, and some people build squirrel obstacle courses for fun. Who acts: Squirrels, skilled acrobats, people. A sentence of the lesson «Foxes and squirrels» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/14/) [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/) / [Foxes and squirrels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/) / 14 # Foxes and squirrels, sentence 14 Squirrels are skilled acrobats that solve puzzles to reach bird feeders, and some people build squirrel obstacle courses for fun. **Who acts:** Squirrels, skilled acrobats, people · **What happens:** be, solve, reach, build · **To what, where:** skilled acrobats, puzzles, bird feeders, obstacle courses This is a sentence of the lesson «Foxes and squirrels» 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 (Squirrels, skilled acrobats, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:215-foxes-and-squirrels.lesson:14 # text = Squirrels are skilled acrobats that solve puzzles to reach bird feeders, and some people build squirrel obstacle courses for fun. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 215-foxes-and-squirrels.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Squirrels squirrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 skilled skilled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 acrobats acrobat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 solve solve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 10 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 feeders feeder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 15 det _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 squirrel squirrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 obstacle obstacle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 courses course NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16: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 | **is a** | present | Squirrels | skilled acrobats | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **solve** | present | skilled acrobats | puzzles | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic | | 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive | skilled acrobats *not said here* | bird feeders | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent feeder=Theme | | 4 | **build** | present | some people | obstacle courses | | | | for fun | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent course=Product for fun=Asset | 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:215-foxes-and-squirrels.lesson:14`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1. **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: [Foxes and squirrels, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/13/) - next →: [Foxes and squirrels, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/)