--- title: A honey fungus in the Blue Mountains of Oregon, USA, spreads undergr… — Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast · tree and pragmatics description: A honey fungus in the Blue Mountains of Oregon, USA, spreads underground over about 9 square kilometres and is thought to be thousands of years old, perhaps the biggest living thing on Earth. Who acts: honey fungus, thousands. 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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 (honey fungus, thousands), 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:14 # text = A honey fungus in the Blue Mountains of Oregon, USA, spreads underground over about 9 square kilometres and is thought to be thousands of years old, perhaps the biggest living thing on Earth. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 fungus fungus NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Blue Blue PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Mountains Mountain PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Oregon Oregon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 underground underground ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 over over ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 18 square square ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 25 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 34 amod _ _ 33 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | present | a honey fungus in the Blue Mountains of Oregon | | | 9 square kilometres | | underground *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over kilometre=Location | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive | a honey fungus in the Blue Mountains of Oregon *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | thousands of years | | | | | old *property* | tree rules | 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:062-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast.lesson:14`. **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/). - ← previous: [Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/62-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast/12/) - next →: [Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/62-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/62-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast/)