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title: Most of a fungus is a web of thin threads hidden in soil or wood. — Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of a fungus is a web of thin threads hidden in soil or wood. Who acts: Most. A sentence of the lesson «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things, sentence 8

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Most of a fungus is a web of thin threads hidden in soil or wood.

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**Who acts:** Most · **What happens:** be, hide · **To what, where:** web, thin threads, soil

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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 (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:8
# text = Most of a fungus is a web of thin threads hidden in soil or wood.
# 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): no change
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	.	.	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 | Most of a fungus | a web |  |  |  | of thin threads | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | participle |  | thin threads *not said here* |  | soil or wood |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in soil=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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**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:8`.

**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): no change. **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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