Foxes and squirrels, sentence 9
Squirrels bury thousands of nuts in autumn as food for winter and find many again by memory and smell; the forgotten ones can grow into trees.
Who acts: Squirrels, forgotten ones · What happens: bury, find, forget, grow · To what, where: thousands, many, trees
This is a sentence of the lesson «Foxes and squirrels» 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, forgotten ones), 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 | Squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bury | nsubj |
| 2 | bury | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bury | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 nuts | case |
| 5 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thousands | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 autumn | case |
| 7 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bury | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 food | case |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bury | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 winter | case |
| 11 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 food | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 find | cc |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 bury | conj |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 find | advmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 memory | case |
| 17 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 smell | cc |
| 19 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 memory | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 bury | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ones | det |
| 22 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 ones | amod |
| 23 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 grow | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 grow | aux |
| 25 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bury | parataxis |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 trees | case |
| 27 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 grow | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bury | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | present | Squirrels | thousands of nuts | autumn | as food for winter | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme | ||
| 2 | find | present | Squirrels not said here | many | again | by memory and smell | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic | ||
| 3 | forget | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | grow | can | the forgotten ones | into 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:215-foxes-and-squirrels.lesson:9.
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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