--- title: The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Autumn is the garden packing its bags: trees pull useful stuff back out of their leaves, birds stuff their la --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/) [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/) / The garden in autumn: colours, conkers… # The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts Lesson 335 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/0/) — Autumn is the garden packing its bags: trees pull useful stuff back out of their leaves, birds stuff their larders or fly south, and the last big jobs of the year get done before the cold. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/1/) — Kick through a pile of yellow and red leaves and you are walking on a tree's old solar panels. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/2/) — The yellow was hidden under the green all summer; when the tree breaks the green down to save what it can, the yellow shows through, and the reds are freshly made. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/3/) — On a misty morning every bush is hung with dewy round webs, a jay flaps off with an acorn in its beak to bury, swallows line up on the wires before their long trip to Africa, and a big hairy spider strolls across the living room carpet, making someone scream. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/4/) — Granny puts conkers in the corners «for the spiders», and the cartoon squirrel remembers every nut it buries. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/5/) — Both stories are fun, and both are wrong, and in this lesson you put them right. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/6/) — In autumn trees break down the green stuff in their leaves and take back what they can; yellows were hidden under the green all summer, while reds are newly made, and sunny days with cold nights give the brightest reds. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/7/) — Conkers are the seeds of the horse chestnut; a spiky case usually holds one, sometimes two or three, and conkers are poisonous to eat, unlike sweet chestnuts. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/8/) — The game of conkers has a world championship held every year in England. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/9/) — There is no good proof that conkers keep spiders away; a schools' competition tested it and the spiders did not mind the conkers. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/10/) — Garden spiders build round webs that are big by autumn, dew makes the silk easy to see, and a garden spider can spin a new web in about an hour. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/11/) — The big spiders seen indoors in autumn are mostly male house spiders wandering in search of a partner; they were already living in the house, hidden, and are harmless to people. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/12/) — Jays bury thousands of acorns each autumn to eat in winter, a jay is reported to bury up to around 5,000 in one autumn, and the forgotten ones can grow into oak trees. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/13/) — Swallows gather on wires before flying thousands of kilometres to Africa for the winter, because the flying insects they eat disappear in the cold, and they often return to the same barn. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/14/) — A fairy ring of mushrooms forms because the fungus spreads out underground and fruits at its edge, so the ring grows wider every year. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/15/) — Wild mushrooms must never be picked or eaten without an expert, because some are deadly. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/16/) — Hedgehogs use piles of leaves to build winter nests, so a pile left in a corner helps hedgehogs and insects, and bonfire piles must be checked before they are lit. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/17/) — An apple cut across shows a star of five seed chambers, each with up to two seeds, so an apple usually holds up to ten seeds. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/18/) — An apple seed grows into a tree unlike its parent, so every tree of one apple kind is made by joining a twig of it onto the roots of another tree. - ← previous: [The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/) - next →: [The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)