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title: Most land plants have fungi joined to their roots, called mycorrhiza… — Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast · tree and pragmatics
description: Most land plants have fungi joined to their roots, called mycorrhiza, which pass water and minerals to the plant and get sugars from it in return. Who acts: Most land plants, fungi. A sentence of the lesson «Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast, sentence 12

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Most land plants have fungi joined to their roots, called mycorrhiza, which pass water and minerals to the plant and get sugars from it in return.

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**Who acts:** Most land plants, fungi · **What happens:** have, join, call, pass, get · **To what, where:** fungi, mycorrhiza, water, plant, sugars, sugar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast» 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 (Most land plants, fungi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:062-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast.lesson:12
# text = Most land plants have fungi joined to their roots, called mycorrhiza, which pass water and minerals to the plant and get sugars from it in return.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 062-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fungi	fungi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
12	mycorrhiza	mycorrhiza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl:relcl
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	minerals	mineral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	sugars	sugar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | Most land plants | fungi |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fungi=Patient |
| 2 | **join** | participle |  | fungi *not said here* |  |  |  | to plant's roots | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to root=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | mycorrhiza *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pass** | present | fungi | water and minerals | the plant |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent water=Theme to plant=Recipient |
| 5 | **get** | present | fungi *not said here* | sugars |  | sugar |  | in return | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme from it=Source |

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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): R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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