--- title: Fungi are decomposers whose thin threads break down dead wood, and m… — Who eats whom: predators, prey, scavengers and d… · tree and pragmatics description: Fungi are decomposers whose thin threads break down dead wood, and mushrooms are only their fruiting bodies; many wild mushrooms are deadly, so never touch or eat one you cannot name. Who acts: Fungi, thin threads, mushrooms, many wild mushrooms. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fungi, thin threads, mushrooms, many wild mushrooms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:047-predators-prey-scavengers-decomposers.lesson:12 # text = Fungi are decomposers whose thin threads break down dead wood, and mushrooms are only their fruiting bodies; many wild mushrooms are deadly, so never touch or eat one you cannot name. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 047-predators-prey-scavengers-decomposers.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Fungi fungi NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 decomposers decomposer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 threads thread NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 8 down down ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 mushrooms mushroom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 fruiting fruiting NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 mushrooms mushroom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 deadly deadly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 touch touch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 eat eat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 obj _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 name name VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Fungi | decomposers and mushrooms's fruiting bodies | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **break down** | present | thin threads | dead wood | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | mushrooms | mushrooms's fruiting bodies | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | many wild mushrooms | | | | | deadly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **touch** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **eat** | infinitive | | one | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 7 | **not** **name** | can | you | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:047-predators-prey-scavengers-decomposers.lesson:12`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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