--- title: In an experiment, a small mustard-like plant made more defence chemi… — Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning sme… · tree and pragmatics description: In an experiment, a small mustard-like plant made more defence chemicals after hearing a recording of caterpillars chewing; plants have no ears but can respond to vibrations. Who acts: small like plant, caterpillars, plants. 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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 16 In an experiment, a small mustard-like plant made more defence chemicals after hearing a recording of caterpillars chewing; plants have no ears but can respond to vibrations. **Who acts:** small like plant, caterpillars, plants · **What happens:** make, hear, chew, have, respond · **To what, where:** more defence chemicals, experiment, recording, ears 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 (small like plant, caterpillars, plants), 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:16 # text = In an experiment, a small mustard-like plant made more defence chemicals after hearing a recording of caterpillars chewing; plants have no ears but can respond to vibrations. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 experiment experiment NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 7 mustard mustard NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 9 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 amod _ _ 13 defence defence NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 chemicals chemical NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 after after SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 hearing hear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 advcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 recording recording NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 caterpillars caterpillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 chewing chew VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 25 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 26 det _ _ 26 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 respond respond VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 vibrations vibration NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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** | past | a small like plant | more defence chemicals | | a experiment | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chemical=Product | | 2 | **hear** | gerund | a small like plant *not said here* | a recording of caterpillars | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer recording=Stimulus | | 3 | **chew** | gerund | caterpillars *not said here* | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | present | plants | no ears | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | | 5 | **respond** *speech: other* | can | plants *not said here* | | | | | to vibrations | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to vibration=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:16`. **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…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/15/) - next →: [Plants deeper: do trees talk? 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