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title: Fungi are not plants: they have no green chlorophyll and cannot make… — Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things · tree and pragmatics
description: Fungi are not plants: they have no green chlorophyll and cannot make their own food, so they feed on dead or living things around them; mushrooms, moulds and yeast are all fungi. Who acts: Fungi, mushrooms. A sentence of the lesson «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» of the world course of Mova
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# Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things, sentence 0

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Fungi are not plants: they have no green chlorophyll and cannot make their own food, so they feed on dead or living things around them; mushrooms, moulds and yeast are all fungi.

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**Who acts:** Fungi, mushrooms · **What happens:** not be, have, not make, feed, live, be · **To what, where:** plants, green chlorophyll, own food, things, fungi

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» of the world 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, mushrooms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:077-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things.lesson:0
# text = Fungi are not plants: they have no green chlorophyll and cannot make their own food, so they feed on dead or living things around them; mushrooms, moulds and yeast are all fungi.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 077-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Fungi	fungi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	chlorophyll	chlorophyll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
26	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	around	around	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
30	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	moulds	mould	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	yeast	yeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	all	all	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	fungi	fungi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Fungi | plants |  |  |  |  | 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* | Fungi's own food |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product |
| 4 | **feed** | present | Fungi |  |  |  |  | on dead | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on dead=Patient |
| 5 | **live** | gerund | Fungi *not said here* | things |  |  |  | around Fungi | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme thing=Location |
| 6 | **is a** | present | mushrooms and moulds and yeast | fungi |  |  |  | all *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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**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:world:077-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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