--- title: When acacias are eaten, their leaves become more bitter, and they ma… — Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning sme… · tree and pragmatics description: When acacias are eaten, their leaves become more bitter, and they may give off a gas that makes nearby acacias turn bitter too; giraffes often move on and browse trees upwind. Who acts: leaves, gas, nearby acacias, giraffes. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smel --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 12 When acacias are eaten, their leaves become more bitter, and they may give off a gas that makes nearby acacias turn bitter too; giraffes often move on and browse trees upwind. **Who acts:** leaves, gas, nearby acacias, giraffes · **What happens:** eat, become, give off, make, turn, move on · **To what, where:** acacias, gas, trees 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 (leaves, gas, nearby acacias, giraffes), 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:12 # text = When acacias are eaten, their leaves become more bitter, and they may give off a gas that makes nearby acacias turn bitter too; giraffes often move on and browse trees upwind. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 acacias acacia NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 10 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 16 off off ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 nearby nearby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 acacias acacia NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 24 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 too too ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 giraffes giraffe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 often often ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 30 on on ADP IN _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 browse browse VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 33 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obl 34 upwind upwind ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:amod 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present · passive | | acacias | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **become** | present | acacias's leaves | | | | | bitter *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **give off** | may | leaves *= leaf* | a gas | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source gas=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | a gas | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **turn** | present | nearby acacias | | | | | bitter *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **move on** | present | giraffes | | | | | often *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **browse** | present | giraffes *not said here* | trees | | | | upwind *property* | tree rules | 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: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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/11/) - next →: [Plants deeper: do trees talk? 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