--- title: Plants make bitter or poisonous chemicals after being attacked; a ch… — Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning sme… · tree and pragmatics description: Plants make bitter or poisonous chemicals after being attacked; a chewed tomato plant makes its leaves harder to digest. Who acts: Plants, chewed tomato plant. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones» of the biology course of Mova's primary scho --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 15 Plants make bitter or poisonous chemicals after being attacked; a chewed tomato plant makes its leaves harder to digest. **Who acts:** Plants, chewed tomato plant · **What happens:** make, attack, chew, digest · **To what, where:** bitter chemicals, leaves 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 (Plants, chewed tomato plant), 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:15 # text = Plants make bitter or poisonous chemicals after being attacked; a chewed tomato plant makes its leaves harder to digest. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 6 chemicals chemical NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 after after SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 attacked attack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 chewed chew VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 13 tomato tomato NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 xcomp _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 digest digest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Plants | bitter chemicals | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chemical=Product | | 2 | **attack** | gerund · passive | Plants *not said here* | | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **chew** | participle | | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | present | a chewed tomato plant | grass's leaves | | | | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leaf=Product | | 5 | **digest** | to-infinitive | a chewed tomato plant *not said here* | | | | | | 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:15`. **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, R8-pos-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…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/14/) - next →: [Plants deeper: do trees talk? 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