Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things, sentence 1

The mushroom we see is only the fruit of a fungus; most of it is a web of fine threads hidden in the soil or wood, and the mushroom spreads tiny spores instead of seeds.

Who acts: we, mushroom, most · What happens: see, be, hide, spread · To what, where: mushroom, fruit, web, fine threads, soil, tiny spores

This is a sentence of the lesson «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» of the world 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 (we, mushroom, most), 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	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 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	of	of	ADP	_	11 fungus	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fungus	det
11	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fruit	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 web	punct
13	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 web	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 most	nmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 web	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 web	det
18	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fruit	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 threads	case
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 threads	amod
21	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 web	nmod
22	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 threads	acl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 soil	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 soil	det
25	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hidden	obl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 wood	cc
27	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 soil	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 spreads	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 spreads	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mushroom	det
31	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spreads	nsubj
32	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fruit	conj
33	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 spores	amod
34	spores	spore	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 spreads	obj
35	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	37 seeds	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	35 instead	fixed
37	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 spreads	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fruit	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	see	present	we	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		of a fungus	tree rules
3	is a	present	most of fungus	a web		of fine threads	tree rules
4	hide	participle		fine threads not said here	the soil or wood		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in soil=Location
5	spread	present	the mushroom	tiny spores		instead seeds	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spore=Theme

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:world:077-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things.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): 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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