--- title: The ones it forgets grow into new trees, so a squirrel is really a f… — Foxes and squirrels · tree and pragmatics description: The ones it forgets grow into new trees, so a squirrel is really a forgetful gardener planting forests, and if another squirrel is watching, it may even pretend to bury a nut to fool the thief. Who acts: squirrel, ones, forgetful gardener. 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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, ones, forgetful gardener), 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:3 # text = The ones it forgets grow into new trees, so a squirrel is really a forgetful gardener planting forests, and if another squirrel is watching, it may even pretend to bury a nut to fool the thief. # 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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 forgets forget VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 squirrel squirrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 14 really really ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 forgetful forgetful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 18 planting planting VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 acl _ _ 19 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 squirrel squirrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 even even ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 pretend pretend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 nut nut NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 fool fool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:xcomp 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 thief thief NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **forget** | present | squirrel | the ones *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | the ones | | | | | into new trees *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result | | 3 | **is a** | present | a squirrel | a forgetful gardener | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **planting** | gerund | a forgetful gardener *not said here* | forests | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **watch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | another squirrel | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **pretend** | may | squirrel | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **bury** | to-infinitive | squirrel *not said here* | a nut | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme | | 8 | **fool** | to-infinitive | squirrel *not said here* | the thief | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Patient | 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:3`. **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 ×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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/2/) - next →: [Foxes and squirrels, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/)