--- title: A squirrel is a rodent with teeth that never stop growing, and in au… — Foxes and squirrels · tree and pragmatics description: A squirrel is a rodent with teeth that never stop growing, and in autumn it buries thousands of nuts one by one, finding many again by memory and smell. Who acts: squirrel, teeth. 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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 (squirrel, teeth), 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:2 # text = A squirrel is a rodent with teeth that never stop growing, and in autumn it buries thousands of nuts one by one, finding many again by memory and smell. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 squirrel squirrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 rodent rodent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 buries bury VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 18 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 advmod _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 21 fixed _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 fixed _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obj _ _ 27 again again ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | a squirrel | a rodent | | | | with teeth | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **stop** | present | teeth | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **grow** | gerund | teeth *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **bury** | present | squirrel | thousands of nuts | | | autumn | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme | | 5 | **find** | gerund | squirrel *not said here* | many | | | again | by memory and smell | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic | 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:2`. **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): R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Foxes and squirrels, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/0/) - next →: [Foxes and squirrels, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/)