--- title: Grey squirrels bury thousands of nuts in autumn, each in a different… — Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prair… · tree and pragmatics description: Grey squirrels bury thousands of nuts in autumn, each in a different place, and find many by memory and smell; the nuts they forget can grow into trees. Who acts: Grey squirrels, squirrels, nuts. A sentence of the lesson «Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchill --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 5 Grey squirrels bury thousands of nuts in autumn, each in a different place, and find many by memory and smell; the nuts they forget can grow into trees. **Who acts:** Grey squirrels, squirrels, nuts · **What happens:** bury, find, forget, grow · **To what, where:** thousands, different place, many, nuts, trees 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 (Grey squirrels, squirrels, nuts), 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:5 # text = Grey squirrels bury thousands of nuts in autumn, each in a different place, and find many by memory and smell; the nuts they forget can grow into trees. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 squirrels squirrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bury bury VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 14 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:det 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obj _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 forget forget VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 30 into into ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bury** | present | Grey squirrels | thousands of nuts | | a different place | autumn | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme in place=Destination | | 2 | **find** | present | Grey squirrels *not said here* | many | | | | by memory and smell | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic | | 3 | **forget** | present | squirrels *= squirrel* | the nuts *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | can | the nuts | | | | | into trees *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result | 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:5`. **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, 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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