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title: Fungi are their own kingdom of life, separate from plants and animal… — Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast · tree and pragmatics
description: Fungi are their own kingdom of life, separate from plants and animals; they have no green chlorophyll and cannot make food from sunlight, and they are in fact closer relatives of animals than of plants. Who acts: Fungi. A sentence of the lesson «Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast» of the biology cour
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# Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast, sentence 5

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Fungi are their own kingdom of life, separate from plants and animals; they have no green chlorophyll and cannot make food from sunlight, and they are in fact closer relatives of animals than of plants.

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**Who acts:** Fungi · **What happens:** be, have, not make · **To what, where:** own kingdom, green chlorophyll, food, sunlight, closer relatives

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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), 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:5
# text = Fungi are their own kingdom of life, separate from plants and animals; they have no green chlorophyll and cannot make food from sunlight, and they are in fact closer relatives of animals than of plants.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Fungi	fungi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
18	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	chlorophyll	chlorophyll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
24	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
32	fact	fact	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	closer	closer	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
34	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
37	than	than	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	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 | Fungi | fungi's own kingdom |  |  |  | of life | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | fungi | no green chlorophyll |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chlorophyll=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **make** | can | fungi *not said here* | food |  | sunlight |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from sunlight=Material |
| 4 | **is a** | present | fungi | closer relatives |  |  |  | of animals; than plants; fact *property* | 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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**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): 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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