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title: Mushrooms suck up caesium, a radioactive metal the explosion left in… — The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mushrooms suck up caesium, a radioactive metal the explosion left in the soil, very well, and wild boar eat underground fungi, so boar in Germany can still be radioactive long after other meat is clean. Who acts: Mushrooms, explosion, wild boar, boar. A sentence of the lesson «The Chornobyl zone: ho
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# The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued, sentence 18

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Mushrooms suck up caesium, a radioactive metal the explosion left in the soil, very well, and wild boar eat underground fungi, so boar in Germany can still be radioactive long after other meat is clean.

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**Who acts:** Mushrooms, explosion, wild boar, boar, other meat · **What happens:** suck up, leave, eat, be · **To what, where:** caesium, radioactive metal, soil, underground fungi

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» 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 (Mushrooms, explosion, wild boar, boar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued.lesson:18
# text = Mushrooms suck up caesium, a radioactive metal the explosion left in the soil, very well, and wild boar eat underground fungi, so boar in Germany can still be radioactive long after other meat is clean.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued.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	Mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	suck	suck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	caesium	caesium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	radioactive	radioactive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	explosion	explosion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	fungi	fungus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
27	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	still	still	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	radioactive	radioactive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
34	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	_
35	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	advcl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **suck up** | present | Mushrooms | caesium |  |  |  | well *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent caesium=Source |
| 2 | **leave** | past | the explosion | a radioactive metal *not said here* |  | the soil |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent metal=Theme in soil=Location |
| 3 | **eat** | present | wild boar | underground fungi |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fungus=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | can | boar in Germany |  |  |  | still | radioactive *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | other meat |  |  |  |  | clean, long *property* | 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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**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.

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