Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 2
The fungus threads trade with the tree: the fungus brings water and minerals from far through the soil, and the tree pays it with sugar.
Who acts: fungus threads, fungus, tree · What happens: trade, bring, pay · To what, where: water, 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 (fungus threads, fungus, tree), 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 fungus | det |
| 2 | fungus | fungus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threads | compound |
| 3 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 trade | nsubj |
| 4 | trade | trade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trade | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 brings | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fungus | det |
| 10 | fungus | fungus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brings | nsubj |
| 11 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 trade | conj |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brings | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 minerals | cc |
| 14 | minerals | mineral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 water | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 far | case |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 brings | advmod |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 soil | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 soil | det |
| 19 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 far | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pays | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pays | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pays | nsubj |
| 24 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 brings | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 pays | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 sugar | case |
| 27 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pays | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trade | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trade | present | fungus threads | with the tree | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tree=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring | present | the fungus | water and minerals | far property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||
| 3 | pay | present | the tree | fungus | with sugar | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |
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:2.
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. 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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