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title: A mushroom is only the fruiting part of a fungus; the main body is m… — Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast · tree and pragmatics
description: A mushroom is only the fruiting part of a fungus; the main body is mycelium, a web of fine threads in the soil or wood, and a fairy ring forms where the threads grow outwards in a circle. Who acts: mushroom, main body, fairy ring, threads. A sentence of the lesson «Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast»
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# Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast, sentence 6

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A mushroom is only the fruiting part of a fungus; the main body is mycelium, a web of fine threads in the soil or wood, and a fairy ring forms where the threads grow outwards in a circle.

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**Who acts:** mushroom, main body, fairy ring, threads · **What happens:** be, form, grow · **To what, where:** fruiting part, mycelium, circle

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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 (mushroom, main body, fairy ring, threads), 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:6
# text = A mushroom is only the fruiting part of a fungus; the main body is mycelium, a web of fine threads in the soil or wood, and a fairy ring forms where the threads grow outwards in a circle.
# 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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fruiting	fruiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	mycelium	mycelium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
34	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	advmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:acl:relcl
38	outwards	outwards	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | a mushroom | the fruiting part |  |  |  | of a fungus | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the main body | mycelium |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** | present | a fairy ring |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | present | the threads |  |  | a circle |  | outwards *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Location |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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