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description: The mushroom is only the fruit of a fungus whose threads live in the soil; the thin gills under the cap drop billions of tiny spores, enough to make a print on paper. Who acts: mushroom, threads. A sentence of the lesson «Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and h
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# Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets, sentence 13

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The mushroom is only the fruit of a fungus whose threads live in the soil; the thin gills under the cap drop billions of tiny spores, enough to make a print on paper.

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**Who acts:** mushroom, threads · **What happens:** be, live, make · **To what, where:** fruit, soil, print, paper

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets» 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 (mushroom, threads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets.lesson:13
# text = The mushroom is only the fruit of a fungus whose threads live in the soil; the thin gills under the cap drop billions of tiny spores, enough to make a print on paper.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets.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 ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	gills	gill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det
22	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:compound
23	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	billions	billion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	spores	spore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	print	print	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | the mushroom | the fruit and the thin gills  the cap under drop billions of tiny spores |  |  |  | of a fungus | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | threads |  |  | the soil |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soil=Location |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | the mushroom *not said here* | a print |  | paper |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset print=Product |

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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:393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets.lesson:13`.

**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 ×2. **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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