--- title: The idea of a «mother tree» feeding her young through fungi comes fr… — Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning sme… · tree and pragmatics description: The idea of a «mother tree» feeding her young through fungi comes from some scientists' work; it is a helpful picture, but trees do not feel love the way people do, and the evidence is argued about. Who acts: mother tree, idea, young, trees. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fu --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 11 The idea of a «mother tree» feeding her young through fungi comes from some scientists' work; it is a helpful picture, but trees do not feel love the way people do, and the evidence is argued about. **Who acts:** mother tree, idea, young, trees, people, scientists · **What happens:** feed, come, be, not feel, do, argue · **To what, where:** young, fungi, work, helpful picture, love, way 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 (mother tree, idea, young, 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:11 # text = The idea of a «mother tree» feeding her young through fungi comes from some scientists' work; it is a helpful picture, but trees do not feel love the way people do, and the evidence is argued about. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 feeding feed VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 young young NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 12 through through ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 fungi fungi NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 17 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 ' 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 helpful helpful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 29 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 32 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:obj 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 43 about about ADP IN _ 42 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feed** | gerund | a mother tree *not said here* | idea's young | | fungi | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Recipient | | 2 | **come** | present | the idea of a mother tree | | | some scientists's work | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from work=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | young | a helpful picture | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **feel** | present · do-support | trees | love | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **do** | present | people | the way *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | | 6 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | | the evidence | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | | 7 | **work** | | some scientists | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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:11`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/10/) - next →: [Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, w…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/12/) - ↑ 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/)