Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 1

Under the forest floor, thin threads of fungi wrap around their roots, and in the air they give off smells that change when they are hurt.

Who acts: thin threads, threads, smells · What happens: wrap, give off, change, hurt · To what, where: forest floor, smells, air, threads

This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones» 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 (thin threads, threads, smells), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	4 floor	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 floor	det
3	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floor	compound
4	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrap	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 threads	punct
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 threads	amod
7	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wrap	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 fungi	case
9	fungi	fungi	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 threads	nmod
10	wrap	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	around	around	ADP	_	13 roots	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 roots	nmod:poss
13	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wrap	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wrap	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 give	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 air	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 air	det
18	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 give	nsubj
20	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wrap	conj
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 give	compound:prt
22	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 give	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 change	nsubj
24	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 smells	acl:relcl
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 hurt	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hurt	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 hurt	aux:pass
28	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 change	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 wrap	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wrap	present	thin threads of fungi		the forest floor	around threads's roots	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme under floor=Destination
2	give off	present	threads = thread	smells	the air		vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source smell=Theme
3	change	present	smells				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hurt	present · passive		threads = thread			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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:252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones.lesson:1.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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