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When the dynamics obeys a continuous symmetry, the entangling phase further splits into a fuzzy phase and a sharp phase based on the scaling of fluctuations of the symmetry charge. While the sharpening transition for Abelian symmetries is well understood analytically, no such understanding exists for the non- Abelian case. In this work, building on a recent analytical solution of the MIPT on tree-like circuit architectures (where qubits are repatedly added or removed from the system in a recursive pattern), we study entanglement and sharpening transitions in monitored dynamical quantum trees obeying U<\/mml:mi>(<\/mml:mo>1<\/mml:mn>)<\/mml:mo><\/mml:math> and S<\/mml:mi>U<\/mml:mi>(<\/mml:mo>2<\/mml:mn>)<\/mml:mo><\/mml:math> symmetries. The recursive structure of tree tensor networks enables powerful analytical and numerical methods to determine the phase diagrams in both cases. 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