Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 8

Many fungi in the soil join tree roots with fine threads; this partnership is called mycorrhiza, and about nine in ten kinds of plant have such fungus partners; the mushrooms that pop up in a ring round a tree often grow from these fungus threads.

Who acts: Many fungi, nine, mushrooms · What happens: join, call, have, pop up, grow · To what, where: tree roots, partnership, such fungus partners, ring · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Many fungi, nine, mushrooms), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fungi	amod
2	fungi	fungus	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 join	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 soil	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soil	det
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fungi	nmod
6	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roots	compound
8	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 join	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 threads	case
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 threads	amod
11	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 join	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 partnership	det
14	partnership	partnership	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 called	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 called	aux:pass
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 join	parataxis
17	mycorrhiza	mycorrhiza	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 called	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 have	cc
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 nine	advmod
21	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 have	nsubj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 kinds	case
23	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 kinds	nummod
24	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 nine	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 plant	case
26	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kinds	nmod
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 called	parataxis
28	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 partners	amod
29	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 partners	compound
30	partners	partner	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 mushrooms	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mushrooms	det
33	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 grow	nsubj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 pop	nsubj
35	pop	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 mushrooms	acl:relcl
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 pop	compound:prt
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 ring	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 ring	det
39	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pop	obl
40	round	round	ADP	_	42 tree	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 tree	det
42	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 ring	nmod
43	often	often	ADV	_	44 grow	advmod
44	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 called	parataxis
45	from	from	ADP	_	48 threads	case
46	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	48 threads	det
47	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 threads	compound
48	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 grow	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 join	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	join	present	Many fungi in the soil	tree roots		with fine threads	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent root=Patient with thread=Co-Patient
2	call speech: assert	present · passive		this partnership			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	have	present	nine in ten kinds of plant	such fungus partners			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Patient
4	pop up	present	the mushrooms		a ring round a tree		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ring=Location
5	grow	present	the mushrooms			from this fungus threads; often property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from thread=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:8.

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. 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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