--- title: Some old tree stumps stay alive for years because their roots are jo… — Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning sme… · tree and pragmatics description: Some old tree stumps stay alive for years because their roots are joined to nearby trees, which keep them fed with sugar. Who acts: old tree stumps, nearby trees, roots. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones» of the biology course of Mova's pr --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 17 Some old tree stumps stay alive for years because their roots are joined to nearby trees, which keep them fed with sugar. **Who acts:** old tree stumps, nearby trees, roots · **What happens:** stay, join, keep, feed · **To what, where:** roots 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 (old tree stumps, nearby trees, roots), 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:17 # text = Some old tree stumps stay alive for years because their roots are joined to nearby trees, which keep them fed with sugar. # 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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 stumps stump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 nearby nearby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 16 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 xcomp _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | present | some old tree stumps | | | | year | alive *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **join** | present · passive | | stumps's roots | | | | to nearby trees | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | | 3 | **keep** | present | nearby trees | roots *= root* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **feed** | participle | roots *= root* *not said here* | | | | | with sugar | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=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:17`. **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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/16/) - next →: [Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, w…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/)