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title: The mushroom we see is only the fruit of a fungus; most of it is a w… — Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things · tree and pragmatics
description: The mushroom we see is only the fruit of a fungus; most of it is a web of fine threads hidden in the soil or wood, and the mushroom spreads tiny spores instead of seeds. Who acts: we, mushroom, most. A sentence of the lesson «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» of the world course of Mova's prim
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# Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things, sentence 1

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The mushroom we see is only the fruit of a fungus; most of it is a web of fine threads hidden in the soil or wood, and the mushroom spreads tiny spores instead of seeds.

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**Who acts:** we, mushroom, most · **What happens:** see, be, hide, spread · **To what, where:** mushroom, fruit, web, fine threads, soil, tiny spores

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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 (we, mushroom, most), 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:1
# text = The mushroom we see is only the fruit of a fungus; most of it is a web of fine threads hidden in the soil or wood, and the mushroom spreads tiny spores instead of seeds.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
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	obl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
33	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	spores	spore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	37	case	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | we | the mushroom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mushroom=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the mushroom | the fruit |  |  |  | of a fungus | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | most of fungus | a web |  |  |  | of fine threads | tree rules |
| 4 | **hide** | participle |  | fine threads *not said here* |  | the soil or wood |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in soil=Location |
| 5 | **spread** | present | the mushroom | tiny spores |  |  |  | instead seeds | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spore=Theme |

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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:1`.

**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 ×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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