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title: Without fungi forests would drown in dead wood, bread would be flat,… — Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast · tree and pragmatics
description: Without fungi forests would drown in dead wood, bread would be flat, and the first antibiotic would never have been found; but some are deadly poisonous, so wild mushrooms are for looking at, never for eating. Who acts: fungi forests, some, wild mushrooms. A sentence of the lesson «Fungi: mushrooms,
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# Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast, sentence 4

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Without fungi forests would drown in dead wood, bread would be flat, and the first antibiotic would never have been found; but some are deadly poisonous, so wild mushrooms are for looking at, never for eating.

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**Who acts:** fungi forests, some, wild mushrooms · **What happens:** drown, be, not find, look, not eat · **To what, where:** dead wood, first antibiotic

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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 (fungi forests, some, wild mushrooms), 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:4
# text = Without fungi forests would drown in dead wood, bread would be flat, and the first antibiotic would never have been found; but some are deadly poisonous, so wild mushrooms are for looking at, never for eating.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	fungi	fungi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	antibiotic	antibiotic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:amod
29	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
32	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
40	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
41	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10: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 | **drown** | would | fungi forests |  |  | dead wood |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | flat *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **find** | would · perfect · passive |  | the first antibiotic |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | present | some |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | present · progressive | wild mushrooms |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **not** **eat** | gerund | wild mushrooms *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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