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title: A mushroom is only the fruit of a fungus; the main fungus is a web o… — Forests: woodland through the year and the great… · tree and pragmatics
description: A mushroom is only the fruit of a fungus; the main fungus is a web of fine threads in wood and soil that rots dead things back into soil, and some wild mushrooms are deadly, so never touch or eat them. Who acts: mushroom, main fungus, soil, wild mushrooms. A sentence of the lesson «Forests: woodland
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# Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest, sentence 12

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A mushroom is only the fruit of a fungus; the main fungus is a web of fine threads in wood and soil that rots dead things back into soil, and some wild mushrooms are deadly, so never touch or eat them.

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**Who acts:** mushroom, main fungus, soil, wild mushrooms · **What happens:** be, rot back, not touch, eat · **To what, where:** fruit, web, dead things, soil, things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» 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 (mushroom, main fungus, soil, wild mushrooms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson:12
# text = A mushroom is only the fruit of a fungus; the main fungus is a web of fine threads in wood and soil that rots dead things back into soil, and some wild mushrooms are deadly, so never touch or eat them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	rots	rot	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
34	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
36	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a mushroom | the fruit |  |  |  | of a fungus | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the main fungus | a web |  |  |  | of fine threads in wood and soil | tree rules |
| 3 | **rot back** | present | soil | dead things |  | soil |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | some wild mushrooms |  |  |  |  | deadly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **touch** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **eat** | infinitive |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson:12`.

**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): no change. **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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