--- title: The smell of cut grass is a chemical signal given off by the hurt gr… — Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning sme… · tree and pragmatics description: The smell of cut grass is a chemical signal given off by the hurt grass; some plants chewed by caterpillars give off smells that call wasps which lay their eggs in caterpillars. Who acts: smell, plants, smells, wasps. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 14 The smell of cut grass is a chemical signal given off by the hurt grass; some plants chewed by caterpillars give off smells that call wasps which lay their eggs in caterpillars. **Who acts:** smell, plants, smells, wasps, cut grass · **What happens:** be, give off, hurt, chew, call, lay · **To what, where:** chemical signal, plants, smells, wasps, eggs · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (smell, plants, smells, wasps), 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:14 # text = The smell of cut grass is a chemical signal given off by the hurt grass; some plants chewed by caterpillars give off smells that call wasps which lay their eggs in caterpillars. # 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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 cut cut ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 chemical chemical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 off off ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 19 chewed chew VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 caterpillars caterpillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 23 off off ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 smells smell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 wasps wasp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 caterpillars caterpillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the smell of cut grass | a chemical signal | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give off** | participle | | a chemical signal *not said here* | | | | by the hurt grass | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source | | 3 | **hurt** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **chew** | participle | | some plants *not said here* | | | | by caterpillars | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **give off** | present | some plants | smells | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source smell=Theme | | 6 | **call** | present | smells | wasps | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wasp=Recipient | | 7 | **lay** | present | wasps | smells's eggs | | | | in caterpillars | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in caterpillar=Destination | | 8 | **smell** | | cut grass | | | | | | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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:14`. **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 ×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…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/13/) - next →: [Plants deeper: do trees talk? 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