The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts, sentence 12

Jays bury thousands of acorns each autumn to eat in winter, a jay is reported to bury up to around 5,000 in one autumn, and the forgotten ones can grow into oak trees.

Who acts: Jays, forgotten ones · What happens: bury, eat, report, bury up, forget, grow · To what, where: thousands, jay, oak trees

This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts» 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 (Jays, 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	Jays	jay	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 acorns	case
5	acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thousands	nmod
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 autumn	det
7	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bury	obl:unmarked
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bury	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 winter	case
11	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 reported	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 jay	det
14	jay	jay	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reported	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 reported	aux:pass
16	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bury	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 bury	mark
18	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 reported	xcomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 bury	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 5,000	case
21	around	around	ADV	_	22 5,000	advmod
22	5,000	5000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 bury	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 autumn	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 autumn	nummod
25	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bury	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 grow	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 grow	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ones	det
29	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 ones	amod
30	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 grow	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 grow	aux
32	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 reported	conj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 trees	case
34	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 trees	compound
35	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 grow	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bury	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bury	present	Jays	thousands of acorns	autumn		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	Jays not said here		winter		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	report	present · passive		a jay			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
4	bury up	to-infinitive			autumn	to 5,000	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	forget	participle					tree rules
6	grow	can	the forgotten ones			into 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:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts.lesson:12.

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. 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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