--- title: A grove of aspens can be one giant plant, all trunks joined by one r… — Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning sme… · tree and pragmatics description: A grove of aspens can be one giant plant, all trunks joined by one root system with the same genes; Pando in Utah weighs about 6,000 tonnes, and the trunks of such a clone can all turn gold on the same autumn day. Who acts: grove, Pando, trunks. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: do trees talk --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 18 A grove of aspens can be one giant plant, all trunks joined by one root system with the same genes; Pando in Utah weighs about 6,000 tonnes, and the trunks of such a clone can all turn gold on the same autumn day. **Who acts:** grove, Pando, trunks · **What happens:** be, join, weigh, turn · **To what, where:** one giant plant, trunks, 6,000 tonnes, gold 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 (grove, Pando, trunks), 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:18 # text = A grove of aspens can be one giant plant, all trunks joined by one root system with the same genes; Pando in Utah weighs about 6,000 tonnes, and the trunks of such a clone can all turn gold on the same autumn day. # 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): R2-punct-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 grove grove NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 aspens aspen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 8 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 appos _ _ 13 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nummod 16 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 genes gene NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 23 Pando Pando PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Utah Utah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 27 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 28 6,000 6000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 tonnes tonne NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obl 30 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=26:punct 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 trunks trunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 37 det:predet _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 clone clone NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 all all ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 41 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 42 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 44 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **is a** | can | a grove of aspens | one giant plant | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **join** | participle | | all trunks *not said here* | | | | by one root system with the same genes | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **weigh** | present | Pando in Utah | 6,000 tonnes | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme tonne=Value | | 4 | **turn** | can | the trunks of such clone | gold | | | day | all *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=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:18`. **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): R2-punct-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/17/) - next →: [Plants deeper: do trees talk? 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