Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice, sentence 5

Grey squirrels bury thousands of nuts in autumn, each in a different place, and find many by memory and smell; the nuts they forget can grow into trees.

Who acts: Grey squirrels, squirrels, nuts · What happens: bury, find, forget, grow · To what, where: thousands, different place, many, nuts, trees

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines, chinchillas and dormice» 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, squirrels, nuts), 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 place	punct
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 place	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 place	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 place	det
13	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 place	amod
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bury	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 find	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 find	cc
17	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bury	conj
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 find	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 memory	case
20	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 smell	cc
22	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 memory	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 grow	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 nuts	det
25	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 grow	nsubj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 forget	nsubj
27	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 nuts	acl:relcl
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 grow	aux
29	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bury	parataxis
30	into	into	ADP	_	31 trees	case
31	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 grow	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bury	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	present	Grey squirrels	thousands of nuts	a different place	autumn		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme in place=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	squirrels = squirrel	the nuts not said here				tree rules
4	grow	can	the nuts				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:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.lesson:5.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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