--- title: Camels can go many days without drinking; their humps store fat, not… — Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking… · tree and pragmatics description: Camels can go many days without drinking; their humps store fat, not water, and a thirsty camel can drink over a hundred litres in about ten minutes. Who acts: Camels, humps, thirsty camel. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Camels, humps, thirsty camel), 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:8 # text = Camels can go many days without drinking; their humps store fat, not water, and a thirsty camel can drink over a hundred litres in about ten minutes. # 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 ×3 1 Camels camel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj 6 without without SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 drinking drink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 humps hump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 store store VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 12 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 thirsty thirsty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 camel camel NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 23 over over ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det 25 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 litres litre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obl 27 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 31 . . 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 | **go** | can | Camels | | | | day | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **drink** | gerund | Camels *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **store** | present | Camels's humps | fat and water | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme | | 4 | **drink** | can | a thirsty camel | hundred litres | | | minute | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-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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