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title: Mould is a fungus too; on an old orange or a slice of bread its thre… — Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast · tree and pragmatics
description: Mould is a fungus too; on an old orange or a slice of bread its threads grow far inside the food and the green or blue fuzz on top is made of spores. Who acts: Mould, threads. A sentence of the lesson «Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast, sentence 9

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Mould is a fungus too; on an old orange or a slice of bread its threads grow far inside the food and the green or blue fuzz on top is made of spores.

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**Who acts:** Mould, threads · **What happens:** be, grow, make, slice · **To what, where:** fungus, old orange, green fuzz, bread

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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 (Mould, 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:9
# text = Mould is a fungus too; on an old orange or a slice of bread its threads grow far inside the food and the green or blue fuzz on top is made of spores.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	parataxis	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	slice	slice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
20	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	fuzz	fuzz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	spores	spore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32: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 | Mould | a fungus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | bread's threads |  |  | a old orange or a slice of bread |  | inside the food; far *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on orange=Location |
| 3 | **make** | present · passive |  | the green fuzz on top |  |  |  | of spores | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **slice** |  |  | bread |  |  |  |  | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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): R6-punct-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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