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title: A honey fungus in Oregon spreads as threads through about ten square… — Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest · tree and pragmatics
description: A honey fungus in Oregon spreads as threads through about ten square kilometres of soil, feeds on tree roots, and may be thousands of years old. Who acts: honey fungus. A sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest, sentence 6

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A honey fungus in Oregon spreads as threads through about ten square kilometres of soil, feeds on tree roots, and may be thousands of years old.

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**Who acts:** honey fungus · **What happens:** spread, feed, be · **To what, where:** thousands

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.lesson:6
# text = A honey fungus in Oregon spreads as threads through about ten square kilometres of soil, feeds on tree roots, and may be thousands of years old.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.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	3	det	_	_
2	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Oregon	Oregon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	feeds	feed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | present | a honey fungus in Oregon |  |  |  |  | as threads | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **feed** | present | a honey fungus in Oregon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on tree roots | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on root=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | may | a honey fungus in Oregon *not said here* | thousands |  |  | year |  | tree rules |

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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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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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