---
title: Old forests with big trees store huge amounts of carbon and are home… — Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning sme… · tree and pragmatics
description: Old forests with big trees store huge amounts of carbon and are home to many fungi and creatures. Who acts: Old forests. 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 with its dependency tree and the pra
---

<!-- md -->
[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/20/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 20

# Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 20

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Old forests with big trees store huge amounts of carbon and are home to many fungi and creatures.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Old forests · **What happens:** store, be, amount · **To what, where:** huge amounts, carbon

<!-- .vabout -->
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 forests), 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:20
# text = Old forests with big trees store huge amounts of carbon and are home to many fungi and creatures.
# 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): no change
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	store	store	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fungi	fungus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **store** | present | Old forests with big trees | huge amounts of carbon |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Old forests with big trees *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to many fungi and creatures; home *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **amount** |  |  | carbon |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:20`.

**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): no change. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, w…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/19/)
- next →: [Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees/0/)
- ↑ 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/)