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title: Dogs bury food to save it for later, as wild dogs do, and may forget… — Cartoon pets and animal myths put right · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs bury food to save it for later, as wild dogs do, and may forget where they buried it. Who acts: Dogs, wild dogs. A sentence of the lesson «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cartoon pets and animal myths put right, sentence 9

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Dogs bury food to save it for later, as wild dogs do, and may forget where they buried it.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, wild dogs · **What happens:** bury, save, do, forget · **To what, where:** food, butter

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» 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 (Dogs, wild dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.lesson:9
# text = Dogs bury food to save it for later, as wild dogs do, and may forget where they buried it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bury	bury	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:acl
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Dogs | food |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 2 | **save** | to-infinitive | Dogs *not said here* | butter |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme for late=Source |
| 3 | **do** | present | wild dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **forget** | may | Dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bury** | past | dogs *= dog* | butter |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right.lesson:9`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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