Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast, sentence 14

A honey fungus in the Blue Mountains of Oregon, USA, spreads underground over about 9 square kilometres and is thought to be thousands of years old, perhaps the biggest living thing on Earth.

Who acts: honey fungus, thousands · What happens: spread, think, be · To what, where: 9 square kilometres

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 (honey fungus, thousands), 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	13 spreads	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 Mountains	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mountains	det
6	Blue	Blue	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Mountains	compound
7	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 fungus	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Oregon	case
9	Oregon	Oregon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Mountains	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 USA	punct
11	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Oregon	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fungus	punct
13	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	underground	underground	ADV	_	13 spreads	advmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	19 kilometres	case
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 9	advmod
17	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 kilometres	nummod
18	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 kilometres	amod
19	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 spreads	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 thought	cc
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 thought	aux:pass
22	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 spreads	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	28 old	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 old	cop
25	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 old	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 years	case
27	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 thousands	nmod
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thought	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thing	punct
30	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	34 thing	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 thing	det
32	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 thing	amod
33	living	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 thing	amod
34	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spreads	parataxis
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 Earth	case
36	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 thing	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 spreads	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	spread	present	a honey fungus in the Blue Mountains of Oregon	9 square kilometres	underground property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over kilometre=Location
2	think speech: other	present · passive	a honey fungus in the Blue Mountains of Oregon not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»
3	is	to-infinitive	thousands of years		old property	tree rules

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:14.

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 ×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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