Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 19

A honey fungus in Oregon spreads under about 10 square kilometres of forest and may be thousands of years old, making it one of the largest living things.

Who acts: honey fungus · What happens: spread, be, make, live · To what, where: 10 square kilometres, thousands, fungus

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 (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	under	under	ADP	_	11 kilometres	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 10	advmod
9	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 kilometres	nummod
10	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kilometres	amod
11	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spreads	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 forest	case
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kilometres	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thousands	cc
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 thousands	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 thousands	cop
17	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spreads	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 years	case
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 thousands	nmod
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thousands	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 making	punct
22	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 spreads	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 making	obj
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 making	xcomp
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 things	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 things	det
27	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 things	amod
28	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 things	amod
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spreads	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	spread	present	a honey fungus in Oregon		10 square kilometres of forest		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under kilometre=Location
2	is a	may	a honey fungus in Oregon not said here	thousands		year	tree rules
3	make	gerund	a honey fungus in Oregon not said here	fungus			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	live	gerund					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:19.

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): R7-rel-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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