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title: Autumn is the garden packing its bags: trees pull useful stuff back… — The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Autumn, garden, trees, birds. A sentence of the lesson «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs 
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# The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** Autumn, garden, trees, birds, year · **What happens:** be, pack, pull, stuff, fly, do · **To what, where:** garden, bags, useful stuff, larders, last big jobs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts» 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 (Autumn, garden, trees, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts.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	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	packing	pack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	stuff	stuff	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	larders	larder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	south	south	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:aux:pass|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf
36	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
37	before	before	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | Autumn | the garden |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pack** | gerund | the garden *not said here* | garden's bags |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bag=Theme |
| 3 | **pull** | present | trees | useful stuff |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme |
| 4 | **stuff** | present | birds | trees's larders |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent larder=Theme |
| 5 | **fly** | present | birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | south *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | present · passive |  | the last big jobs of the year |  |  | before the cold |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 7 | **job** |  | the year |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: of=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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