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title: The fog-basking beetle of the Namib Desert stands head-down on a dun… — Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking… · tree and pragmatics
description: The fog-basking beetle of the Namib Desert stands head-down on a dune at dawn; fog forms droplets on its bumpy back that roll down to its mouth, and engineers have copied its back to collect water from fog. Who acts: basking beetle, fog, droplets, engineers. A sentence of the lesson «Deserts of the 
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# Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants, sentence 6

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The fog-basking beetle of the Namib Desert stands head-down on a dune at dawn; fog forms droplets on its bumpy back that roll down to its mouth, and engineers have copied its back to collect water from fog.

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**Who acts:** basking beetle, fog, droplets, engineers · **What happens:** bask, stand, form, roll down, copy, collect · **To what, where:** dune, droplets, bumpy back, mouth, back, water

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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 (basking beetle, fog, droplets, engineers), 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:6
# text = The fog-basking beetle of the Namib Desert stands head-down on a dune at dawn; fog forms droplets on its bumpy back that roll down to its mouth, and engineers have copied its back to collect water from fog.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	basking	bask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Namib	Namib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Desert	Desert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obj
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dune	dune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct
20	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	droplets	droplet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	bumpy	bumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	roll	roll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	engineers	engineer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	copied	copy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
38	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
42	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bask** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stand** | present | the basking beetle of the Namib Desert |  |  | a dune | dawn | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on dune=Location |
| 3 | **form** | present | fog | droplets |  | fog's bumpy back |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location droplet=Theme |
| 4 | **roll down** | present | droplets |  |  | fog's mouth |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to mouth=Destination |
| 5 | **copy** | present · perfect | engineers | fog's back |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
| 6 | **collect** | to-infinitive | engineers *not said here* | water |  | fog |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from fog=Source |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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