--- title: Many fungi in the soil join tree roots with fine threads; this partn… — Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning sme… · tree and pragmatics description: Many fungi in the soil join tree roots with fine threads; this partnership is called mycorrhiza, and about nine in ten kinds of plant have such fungus partners; the mushrooms that pop up in a ring round a tree often grow from these fungus threads. Who acts: Many fungi, nine, mushrooms. A sentence of --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 8 Many fungi in the soil join tree roots with fine threads; this partnership is called mycorrhiza, and about nine in ten kinds of plant have such fungus partners; the mushrooms that pop up in a ring round a tree often grow from these fungus threads. **Who acts:** Many fungi, nine, mushrooms · **What happens:** join, call, have, pop up, grow · **To what, where:** tree roots, partnership, such fungus partners, ring · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Many fungi, nine, mushrooms), 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:8 # text = Many fungi in the soil join tree roots with fine threads; this partnership is called mycorrhiza, and about nine in ten kinds of plant have such fungus partners; the mushrooms that pop up in a ring round a tree often grow from these fungus threads. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 fungi fungus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 join join VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 threads thread NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 partnership partnership NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 17 mycorrhiza mycorrhiza NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nsubj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 28 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 fungus fungus NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 partners partner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 mushrooms mushroom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 pop pop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 round round ADP IN _ 42 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:obl 43 often often ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 45 from from ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 48 det _ _ 47 fungus fungus NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 threads thread NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **join** | present | Many fungi in the soil | tree roots | | | | with fine threads | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent root=Patient with thread=Co-Patient | | 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | this partnership | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **have** | present | nine in ten kinds of plant | such fungus partners | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Patient | | 4 | **pop up** | present | the mushrooms | | | a ring round a tree | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ring=Location | | 5 | **grow** | present | the mushrooms | | | | | from this fungus threads; often *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from thread=Patient | 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:8`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, w…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones/7/) - next →: [Plants deeper: do trees talk? 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