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title: Some exciting claims are proven, others are still argued about, and… — Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning sme… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some exciting claims are proven, others are still argued about, and good science says which is which. Who acts: good science. 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 th
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# Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 7

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Some exciting claims are proven, others are still argued about, and good science says which is which.

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**Who acts:** good science · **What happens:** prove, argue, say, be · **To what, where:** exciting claims, others · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (good science), 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:7
# text = Some exciting claims are proven, others are still argued about, and good science says which is which.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	exciting	exciting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	proven	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
7	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	argued	argue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	ccomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **prove** | present · passive |  | some exciting claims |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive |  | others |  |  | still | about *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | good science |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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): R6-punct-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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