Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest, sentence 6

A honey fungus in Oregon spreads as threads through about ten square kilometres of soil, feeds on tree roots, and may be thousands of years old.

Who acts: honey fungus · What happens: spread, feed, be · To what, where: thousands

This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» 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 (honey fungus), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fungus	det
2	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fungus	compound
3	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spreads	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Oregon	case
5	Oregon	Oregon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fungus	nmod
6	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 threads	case
8	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spreads	obl
9	through	through	ADP	_	13 kilometres	case
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 ten	advmod
11	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 kilometres	nummod
12	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kilometres	amod
13	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 threads	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 soil	case
15	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kilometres	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 feeds	punct
17	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 spreads	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 roots	case
19	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 roots	compound
20	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 feeds	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thousands	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 thousands	cc
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 thousands	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 thousands	cop
25	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spreads	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 years	case
27	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 thousands	nmod
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thousands	amod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spreads	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spread	present	a honey fungus in Oregon			as threads	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feed	present	a honey fungus in Oregon not said here			on tree roots	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on root=Patient
3	is a	may	a honey fungus in Oregon not said here	thousands	year		tree rules

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:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.lesson:6.

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): no change. 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/6/