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title: A honey fungus in Oregon spreads under about 10 square kilometres of… — Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning sme… · tree and pragmatics
description: A honey fungus in Oregon spreads under about 10 square kilometres of forest and may be thousands of years old, making it one of the largest living things. Who acts: honey fungus. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones» of the biology course of 
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# Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 19

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A honey fungus in Oregon spreads under about 10 square kilometres of forest and may be thousands of years old, making it one of the largest living things.

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**Who acts:** honey fungus · **What happens:** spread, be, make, live · **To what, where:** 10 square kilometres, thousands, fungus

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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 (honey fungus), 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:19
# text = A honey fungus in Oregon spreads under about 10 square kilometres of forest and may be thousands of years old, making it one of the largest living things.
# 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 ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Oregon	Oregon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
28	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	amod	_	_
29	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | present | a honey fungus in Oregon |  |  | 10 square kilometres of forest |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under kilometre=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | may | a honey fungus in Oregon *not said here* | thousands |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | a honey fungus in Oregon *not said here* | fungus |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 4 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:19`.

**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 ×3. **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/).

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