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title: A mushroom is the part of a fungus that pokes above the ground to sp… — Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lob… · tree and pragmatics
description: A mushroom is the part of a fungus that pokes above the ground to spread spores; most of the fungus is a web of thin threads under the soil. Who acts: mushroom, fungus, most. A sentence of the lesson «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryph
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# Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar, sentence 17

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A mushroom is the part of a fungus that pokes above the ground to spread spores; most of the fungus is a web of thin threads under the soil.

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**Who acts:** mushroom, fungus, most · **What happens:** be, poke, spread · **To what, where:** part, ground, spores, web

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» 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, fungus, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:17
# text = A mushroom is the part of a fungus that pokes above the ground to spread spores; most of the fungus is a web of thin threads under the soil.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pokes	poke	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	above	above	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	spores	spore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	under	under	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a mushroom | the part |  |  |  | of a fungus | tree rules |
| 2 | **poke** | present | a fungus |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent above ground=Location |
| 3 | **spread** | to-infinitive | a fungus *not said here* | spores |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spore=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | most of the fungus | a web |  |  |  | of thin threads under the soil | 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:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:17`.

**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): 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/).

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