--- title: Watch a grey squirrel in a park in autumn: it buries a nut, looks ro… — Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prair… · tree and pragmatics description: Watch a grey squirrel in a park in autumn: it buries a nut, looks round, and sometimes digs a fake hole somewhere else. Who acts: you, dormouse. A sentence of the lesson «Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice» of the biology course of Mova's pri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice/3/) [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/) / [Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marm…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice/) / 3 # Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 3 Watch a grey squirrel in a park in autumn: it buries a nut, looks round, and sometimes digs a fake hole somewhere else. **Who acts:** you, dormouse · **What happens:** watch, bury, look round, dig · **To what, where:** grey squirrel, park, nut, fake hole This is a sentence of the lesson «Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice» 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 (you, dormouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.lesson:3 # text = Watch a grey squirrel in a park in autumn: it buries a nut, looks round, and sometimes digs a fake hole somewhere else. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 squirrel squirrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 buries bury VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 nut nut NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 round round ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 21 advmod _ _ 21 digs dig VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 somewhere somewhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 21 advmod _ _ 26 else else ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | a grey squirrel | | a park | autumn | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squirrel=Theme | | 2 | **bury** | present | dormouse | a nut | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme | | 3 | **look round** | present | dormouse *not said here* | | | | | round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **dig** | present | dormouse *not said here* | a fake hole | | | | sometimes, somewhere *property* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | 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:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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