Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 11
The idea of a «mother tree» feeding her young through fungi comes from some scientists' work; it is a helpful picture, but trees do not feel love the way people do, and the evidence is argued about.
Who acts: mother tree, idea, young, trees, people, scientists · What happens: feed, come, be, not feel, do, argue · To what, where: young, fungi, work, helpful picture, love, way
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 (mother tree, idea, young, trees), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 idea | det |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 tree | punct |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | compound |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 idea | nmod |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 tree | punct |
| 9 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 tree | acl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 young | nmod:poss |
| 11 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feeding | obj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 fungi | case |
| 13 | fungi | fungi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 feeding | obl |
| 14 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 work | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 scientists | det |
| 17 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 work | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 17 scientists | case |
| 19 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 comes | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 picture | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 picture | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 picture | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 picture | det |
| 24 | helpful | helpful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 picture | amod |
| 25 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 comes | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 feel | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 feel | cc |
| 28 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 feel | nsubj |
| 29 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 feel | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 feel | advmod |
| 31 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 comes | parataxis |
| 32 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 feel | xcomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 way | det |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 love | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 do | nsubj |
| 36 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 way | acl:relcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 argued | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 argued | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 evidence | det |
| 40 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 argued | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 argued | aux:pass |
| 42 | argued | argue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 feel | conj |
| 43 | about | about | ADP | _ | 42 argued | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | gerund | a mother tree not said here | idea's young | fungi | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come | present | the idea of a mother tree | some scientists's work | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from work=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | young | a helpful picture | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not feel | present · do-support | trees | love | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | do | present | people | the way not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | argue speech: disagree | present · passive | the evidence | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 7 | work | some scientists | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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:11.
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 ×3. 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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