Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 18

Different animals are clever in different ways: a squirrel remembers hundreds of buried nuts, a bee its flower map, a dog our moods.

Who acts: Different animals, squirrel · What happens: be, remember, bury · To what, where: different ways, hundreds

This is a sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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 (Different animals, squirrel), 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	Different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clever	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	cop
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 ways	case
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ways	amod
7	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clever	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 remembers	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 squirrel	det
10	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remembers	nsubj
11	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	parataxis
12	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 remembers	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 nuts	case
14	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 nuts	amod
15	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hundreds	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bee	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bee	det
18	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remembers	conj
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 map	nmod:poss
20	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 map	compound
21	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bee	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dog	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 dog	det
24	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remembers	conj
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 moods	nmod:poss
26	moods	mood	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 dog	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 clever	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Different animals		different ways	clever property	tree rules
2	remember	present	a squirrel	hundreds of buried nuts			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme
3	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:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:18.

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 ×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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