--- title: In South Africa in the 1980s many kudu antelopes died on crowded far… — Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning sme… · tree and pragmatics description: In South Africa in the 1980s many kudu antelopes died on crowded farms, and one explanation was that the acacias there had turned too bitter. Who acts: many kudu antelopes, acacias. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones» of the biology course --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 13 In South Africa in the 1980s many kudu antelopes died on crowded farms, and one explanation was that the acacias there had turned too bitter. **Who acts:** many kudu antelopes, acacias · **What happens:** die, be, turn · **To what, where:** one explanation 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 (many kudu antelopes, acacias), 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:13 # text = In South Africa in the 1980s many kudu antelopes died on crowded farms, and one explanation was that the acacias there had turned too bitter. # 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 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 1980s 1980s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 kudu kudu NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 antelopes antelope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 crowded crowded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 explanation explanation NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 acacias acacia NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 ccomp _ _ 25 too too ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | past | many kudu antelopes | | | | | in the 1980s; on crowded farms; in South Africa | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in africa=Attribute | | 2 | **is a** | past | many kudu antelopes *not said here* | one explanation | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **turn** | past · perfect | the acacias | | | | | bitter *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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:13`. **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. **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…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/12/) - next →: [Plants deeper: do trees talk? 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