--- title: Trees cannot walk, shout or run away, but they are not as silent as… — Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning sme… · tree and pragmatics description: Trees cannot walk, shout or run away, but they are not as silent as they look. Who acts: Trees. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, w…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/) / 0 # Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 0 Trees cannot walk, shout or run away, but they are not as silent as they look. **Who acts:** Trees · **What happens:** not walk, shout, run away, not be, look This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones» 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 (Trees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones.lesson:0 # text = Trees cannot walk, shout or run away, but they are not as silent as they look. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 shout shout VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 8 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 9 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 as as ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **not** **walk** | can | Trees | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive | Trees *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **run away** | infinitive | Trees *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | Trees *= tree* | | | | | silent *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **look** | present | Trees *= tree* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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](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:252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, ho…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/19/) - next →: [Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, w…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/)