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title: Camels can go days without water; the hump stores fat, not water, th… — The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Camels can go days without water; the hump stores fat, not water, their bodies lose little water, long eyelashes and closable nostrils keep sand out, and wide feet do not sink. Who acts: Camels, hump, bodies, long eyelashes. A sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animal
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# The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals, sentence 11

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Camels can go days without water; the hump stores fat, not water, their bodies lose little water, long eyelashes and closable nostrils keep sand out, and wide feet do not sink.

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**Who acts:** Camels, hump, bodies, long eyelashes, wide feet · **What happens:** go, store, lose, keep out, not sink · **To what, where:** fat, little water, sand

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals» 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 (Camels, hump, bodies, long eyelashes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.lesson:11
# text = Camels can go days without water; the hump stores fat, not water, their bodies lose little water, long eyelashes and closable nostrils keep sand out, and wide feet do not sink.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
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	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stores	store	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	eyelashes	eyelash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	closable	closable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
28	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	out	out	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
34	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	parataxis	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **go** | can | Camels |  |  |  | day | without water | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **store** | present | the hump | fat and water |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | present | fat's bodies | little water |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality |
| 4 | **keep out** | present | long eyelashes and closable nostrils | sand |  |  |  | out *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **sink** | present · do-support | wide feet |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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): R7-rel-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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