--- title: Fungus threads can join many trees, and some sugar and signals may p… — Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning sme… · tree and pragmatics description: Fungus threads can join many trees, and some sugar and signals may pass from tree to tree, but how much and how often is still debated by scientists. Who acts: Fungus threads, sugar, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones» of the bi --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 10 Fungus threads can join many trees, and some sugar and signals may pass from tree to tree, but how much and how often is still debated by scientists. **Who acts:** Fungus threads, sugar, scientists · **What happens:** join, pass, debate · **To what, where:** many trees, tree, much 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 (Fungus threads, sugar, scientists), 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:10 # text = Fungus threads can join many trees, and some sugar and signals may pass from tree to tree, but how much and how often is still debated by scientists. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Fungus fungus NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 threads thread NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 15 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 21 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 22 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 25 often often ADV RB _ 22 conj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 27 still still ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 debated debate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **join** | can | Fungus threads | many trees | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | | 2 | **pass** | may | some sugar and signals | | | tree | | to tree | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial\_Location to tree=Destination | | 3 | **debate** | present · passive | scientists | much | | | still | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent | 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:10`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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: do trees talk? Fungi, w…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/9/) - next →: [Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, w…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/11/) - ↑ 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/)