What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in, sentence 10

Grey squirrels bury thousands of nuts in autumn to eat in winter, and forgotten acorns can grow into new oak trees, so squirrels help plant their own woods.

Who acts: Grey squirrels, forgotten acorns, squirrels · What happens: bury, eat, forget, grow, help, plant · To what, where: thousands, new oak trees, own woods

This is a sentence of the lesson «What a habitat is: home, food, shelter and fitting in» 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, forgotten acorns, squirrels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 squirrels	amod
2	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bury	nsubj
3	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bury	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 nuts	case
6	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thousands	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 autumn	case
8	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bury	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bury	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 winter	case
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grow	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 grow	cc
15	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 acorns	amod
16	acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 grow	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 grow	aux
18	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bury	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	22 trees	case
20	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 trees	amod
21	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 trees	compound
22	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 grow	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 help	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 help	advmod
25	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 help	nsubj
26	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bury	conj
27	plant	plant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 help	xcomp
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 woods	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 woods	amod
30	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 plant	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bury	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bury	present	Grey squirrels	thousands of nuts	autumn		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	Grey squirrels not said here		winter		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	forget	participle					tree rules
4	grow	can	forgotten acorns			into new oak trees result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result
5	help	present	squirrels				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	plant	infinitive	squirrels not said here	squirrels's own woods			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient

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, 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:001-what-a-habitat-is.lesson:10.

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): no change. 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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