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title: Other plants, and even some insects, can pick such signals up. — Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning sme… · tree and pragmatics
description: Other plants, and even some insects, can pick such signals up. Who acts: Other plants. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 5

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Other plants, and even some insects, can pick such signals up.

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**Who acts:** Other plants · **What happens:** pick up · **To what, where:** such signals

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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 (Other 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:5
# text = Other plants, and even some insects, can pick such signals up.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	signals	signal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | can | Other plants and some insects | such signals |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Topic |

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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:5`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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