Seeds and fruit and how they travel, sentence 10

Squirrels and jays bury acorns and nuts for winter and forget many, which grow into new trees; one jay can bury several thousand acorns in an autumn.

Who acts: Squirrels, one jay · What happens: bury, forget, grow · To what, where: acorns, many, new trees, thousand acorns

This is a sentence of the lesson «Seeds and fruit and how they travel» 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, one jay), 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 bury	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 jays	cc
3	jays	jay	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Squirrels	conj
4	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bury	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nuts	cc
7	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 acorns	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 winter	case
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bury	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 forget	cc
11	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bury	conj
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 forget	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grow	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 grow	nsubj
15	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 many	acl:relcl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 trees	case
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 trees	amod
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grow	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 bury	punct
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 jay	nummod
21	jay	jay	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bury	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bury	aux
23	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bury	parataxis
24	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thousand	amod
25	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 acorns	nummod
26	acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bury	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 autumn	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 autumn	det
29	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bury	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bury	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bury	present	Squirrels and jays	acorns and nuts	winter		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acorn=Theme
2	forget	present	Squirrels and jays not said here	many			tree rules
3	grow	present				into new trees result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result
4	bury	can	one jay	thousand acorns	autumn		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acorn=Theme

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:059-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel.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, 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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