Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 10

Fungus threads can join many trees, and some sugar and signals may pass from tree to tree, but how much and how often is still debated by scientists.

Who acts: Fungus threads, sugar, scientists · What happens: join, pass, debate · To what, where: many trees, tree, much

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 (Fungus threads, sugar, scientists), 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	Fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threads	compound
2	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 join	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 join	aux
4	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trees	amod
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 join	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pass	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pass	cc
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 sugar	det
10	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pass	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 signals	cc
12	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sugar	conj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 pass	aux
14	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 join	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 tree	case
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pass	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 tree	case
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pass	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 debated	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 debated	cc
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 much	advmod
22	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 debated	nsubj:pass
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 often	cc
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 often	advmod
25	often	often	ADV	_	22 much	conj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 debated	aux:pass
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 debated	advmod
28	debated	debate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 join	parataxis
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 scientists	case
30	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 debated	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 join	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	can	Fungus threads	many trees				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
2	pass	may	some sugar and signals		tree		to tree	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_Location to tree=Destination
3	debate	present · passive	scientists	much		still		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-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:252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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