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title: Jays and nutcrackers hide thousands of nuts in autumn and remember m… — Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jays and nutcrackers hide thousands of nuts in autumn and remember most of the places months later, though the nuts they forget can grow into new trees, and jays re-hide food if another jay was watching. Who acts: Jays, nuts, jay. A sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays an
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# Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots, sentence 9

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Jays and nutcrackers hide thousands of nuts in autumn and remember most of the places months later, though the nuts they forget can grow into new trees, and jays re-hide food if another jay was watching.

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**Who acts:** Jays, nuts, jay · **What happens:** hide, remember, forget, grow, re-hide, watch · **To what, where:** thousands, most, nuts, new trees, food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots» 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 (Jays, nuts, jay), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots.lesson:9
# text = Jays and nutcrackers hide thousands of nuts in autumn and remember most of the places months later, though the nuts they forget can grow into new trees, and jays re-hide food if another jay was watching.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Jays	jay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	nutcrackers	nutcracker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	forget	forget	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	jays	jay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	re-hide	re-hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
33	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	jay	jay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | Jays and nutcrackers | thousands of nuts |  |  | autumn |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient |
| 2 | **remember** | present | Jays and nutcrackers *not said here* | most  the places |  |  | month |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent most=Theme |
| 3 | **forget** | present | Jays *= jay* | the nuts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** | can | the nuts |  |  |  |  | into new trees *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result |
| 5 | **re-hide** | present | jays | food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **watch** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | another jay |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): 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.

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