The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where, sentence 10

Squirrels do not hibernate: they stay in their nest, called a drey, on the coldest days and eat buried nuts and seeds from feeders.

Who acts: Squirrels, blackbirds, nest · What happens: not hibernate, stay, call, eat, bury · To what, where: nest, drey, buried nuts, feeders · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» 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, blackbirds, nest), 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	4 hibernate	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hibernate	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hibernate	advmod
4	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 stay	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stay	nsubj
7	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hibernate	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 nest	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nest	nmod:poss
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 nest	acl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 drey	det
14	drey	drey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 called	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 days	punct
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 days	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 days	det
18	coldest	cold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 days	amod
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stay	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 eat	cc
21	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stay	conj
22	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 nuts	amod
23	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 eat	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 seeds	cc
25	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 nuts	conj
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 feeders	case
27	feeders	feeder	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 eat	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hibernate	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not hibernate	present · do-support	Squirrels				vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
2	stay	present	blackbirds = blackbird		blackbirds's nest	day	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location
3	call	participle	blackbirds's nest not said here	a drey			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent drey=Recipient
4	eat	present	blackbirds = blackbird not said here	buried nuts and seeds	feeders		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient
5	bury	participle					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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