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title: Squirrels do not hibernate: they stay in their nest, called a drey,… — The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Squirrels do not hibernate: they stay in their nest, called a drey, on the coldest days and eat buried nuts and seeds from feeders. Who acts: Squirrels, blackbirds, nest. A sentence of the lesson «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» of the biology course of Mov
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# The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where, sentence 10

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Squirrels do not hibernate: they stay in their nest, called a drey, on the coldest days and eat buried nuts and seeds from feeders.

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**Who acts:** Squirrels, blackbirds, nest · **What happens:** not hibernate, stay, call, eat, bury · **To what, where:** nest, drey, buried nuts, feeders · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» 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 (Squirrels, blackbirds, nest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.lesson:10
# text = Squirrels do not hibernate: they stay in their nest, called a drey, on the coldest days and eat buried nuts and seeds from feeders.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	drey	drey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	coldest	cold	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
22	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	feeders	feeder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **not** **hibernate** | present · do-support | Squirrels |  |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **stay** | present | blackbirds *= blackbird* |  |  | blackbirds's nest | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location |
| 3 | **call** | participle | blackbirds's nest *not said here* | a drey |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent drey=Recipient |
| 4 | **eat** | present | blackbirds *= blackbird* *not said here* | buried nuts and seeds |  | feeders |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient |
| 5 | **bury** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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