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title: On a misty morning every bush is hung with dewy round webs, a jay fl… — The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: jay, swallows, big hairy spide
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# The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts, sentence 3

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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.

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**Who acts:** jay, swallows, big hairy spider, someone · **What happens:** hung, flap off, bury, line up, stroll, make · **To what, where:** bush, wires, room carpet, someone

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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 (jay, swallows, big hairy spider, someone), 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:3
# text = 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.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	hung	hung	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	dewy	dewy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	webs	web	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	jay	jay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	flaps	flap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	acorn	acorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	swallows	swallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	line	line	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl
33	before	before	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	hairy	hairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	strolls	stroll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=28:conj
46	across	across	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
53	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	52	obj	_	_
54	scream	scream	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	_
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **hung** | present · passive |  | every bush |  |  | morning | with dewy round webs | tree rules |
| 2 | **flap off** | present | a jay |  |  |  |  | with a acorn in jay's beak | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bury** | to-infinitive | a jay *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **line up** | present | swallows |  |  | the wires | before swallows's long trip to Africa |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stroll** | present | a big hairy spider |  |  | the room carpet |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across carpet=Trajectory |
| 6 | **make** | gerund | a big hairy spider *not said here* | someone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **scream** *speech: express* | infinitive | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **trip** |  | swallows *= swallow* |  |  |  |  | to Africa | nom trip «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3. **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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