Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest, sentence 6

Grey squirrels bury nuts in many separate spots and find many by memory and smell, but the acorns they and jays forget can grow into new oak trees.

Who acts: Grey squirrels, acorns · What happens: bury, find, forget, grow · To what, where: nuts, many separate spots, many, acorns, new oak trees

This is a sentence of the lesson «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» 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, acorns), 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	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bury	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 spots	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spots	amod
7	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spots	amod
8	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nuts	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 find	cc
10	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bury	conj
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 find	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 memory	case
13	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 find	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 smell	cc
15	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 memory	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grow	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 grow	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 acorns	det
19	acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 grow	nsubj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 forget	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 jays	cc
22	jays	jay	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 they	conj
23	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 acorns	acl:relcl
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 grow	aux
25	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bury	conj
26	into	into	ADP	_	29 trees	case
27	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 trees	amod
28	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 trees	compound
29	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 grow	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bury	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bury	present	Grey squirrels	nuts	many separate spots		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nut=Theme in spot=Destination
2	find	present	Grey squirrels not said here	many		by memory and smell	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic
3	forget	present	acorns = acorn	the acorns not said here			tree rules
4	grow	can	the acorns			into new oak trees result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result

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:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson:6.

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): R1-cc-next ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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