Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast, sentence 1
The mushroom you see is only the fruit; the real fungus is a hidden web of threads, the mycelium, spread through the soil or a log like a giant tangle of white cotton.
Who acts: you, mushroom, real fungus · What happens: see, be, spread · To what, where: mushroom, fruit, hidden web, mycelium, soil
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast» 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 (you, mushroom, real 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mushroom | det |
| 2 | mushroom | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fruit | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 mushroom | acl:relcl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fruit | cop |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 fruit | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fruit | det |
| 8 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 web | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fungus | det |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fungus | amod |
| 12 | fungus | fungus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 web | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 web | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 web | det |
| 15 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 web | amod |
| 16 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fruit | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 threads | case |
| 18 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 web | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mycelium | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mycelium | det |
| 21 | mycelium | mycelium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fruit | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spread | punct |
| 23 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 mycelium | acl |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 soil | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 soil | det |
| 26 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spread | obl |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 log | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 log | det |
| 29 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 soil | conj |
| 30 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 tangle | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 tangle | det |
| 32 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 tangle | amod |
| 33 | tangle | tangle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 log | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 cotton | case |
| 35 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 cotton | amod |
| 36 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tangle | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fruit | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | the mushroom not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mushroom=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the mushroom | the fruit and the mycelium | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the real fungus | a hidden web | of threads | tree rules | |||
| 4 | spread | participle | the mycelium not said here | the soil or a log like a giant tangle of white cotton | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through soil=Location |
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:062-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast.lesson:1.
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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