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title: A camel's hump stores fat, not water; when food is short the camel u… — More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcup… · tree and pragmatics
description: A camel's hump stores fat, not water; when food is short the camel uses the fat and the hump goes floppy. Who acts: hump, food, camel. A sentence of the lesson «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its
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# More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats, sentence 5

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A camel's hump stores fat, not water; when food is short the camel uses the fat and the hump goes floppy.

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**Who acts:** hump, food, camel · **What happens:** store, be, use, go · **To what, where:** fat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» 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 (hump, food, camel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson:5
# text = A camel's hump stores fat, not water; when food is short the camel uses the fat and the hump goes floppy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stores	store	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	floppy	floppy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **store** | present | a camel's hump | fat and water |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | food |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | present | the camel | the fat |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | present | the hump |  |  |  |  | floppy *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson:5`.

**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. **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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