Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 9
The fungus brings the tree water and minerals, and the tree pays the fungus with sugar made in its leaves.
Who acts: fungus, tree · What happens: bring, pay, make · To what, where: tree water, fungus, sugar, leaves
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, 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 brings | nsubj |
| 3 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 water | compound |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brings | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 minerals | cc |
| 8 | minerals | mineral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 water | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pays | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pays | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pays | nsubj |
| 13 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 brings | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fungus | det |
| 15 | fungus | fungus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pays | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 sugar | case |
| 17 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pays | obl |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 sugar | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 leaves | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 21 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | the fungus | the tree water and minerals | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pay | present | the tree | the fungus | with sugar | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fungus=Asset | |||
| 3 | make | participle | sugar not said here | fungus's leaves | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=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:9.
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 ×2. 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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