--- title: Desert animals solve it in clever ways: some drink fog, some get all… — Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking… · tree and pragmatics description: Desert animals solve it in clever ways: some drink fog, some get all their water from food, some hide in burrows by day and come out at night. Who acts: Desert animals, some. A sentence of the lesson «Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants» of the biology co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants/) / 1 # Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants, sentence 1 Desert animals solve it in clever ways: some drink fog, some get all their water from food, some hide in burrows by day and come out at night. **Who acts:** Desert animals, some · **What happens:** solve, drink, get, hide, come out · **To what, where:** desert, clever ways, fog, water, food, burrows This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants» 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 (Desert animals, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson:1 # text = Desert animals solve it in clever ways: some drink fog, some get all their water from food, some hide in burrows by day and come out at night. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.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 ×3 1 Desert desert ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 solve solve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 10 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 fog fog NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 13 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 14 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 17 det:predet _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 22 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 burrows burrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 29 out out ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **solve** | present | Desert animals | desert | | clever ways | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 2 | **drink** | present | some | fog | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fog=Patient | | 3 | **get** | present | some | animals's water | | food | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from food=Source | | 4 | **hide** | present | some | | | burrows | day | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in burrow=Location | | 5 | **come out** | present | some *not said here* | | | | night | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | 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. **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:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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