--- title: A camel's wide feet fit the sand, an octopus's spare hearts fit life… — The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals · tree and pragmatics description: A camel's wide feet fit the sand, an octopus's spare hearts fit life in the sea, and a dormouse's long winter sleep fits a cold season with no food. Who acts: wide feet, spare hearts, long winter sleep, dormouse. 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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 (wide feet, spare hearts, long winter sleep, dormouse), 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:3 # text = A camel's wide feet fit the sand, an octopus's spare hearts fit life in the sea, and a dormouse's long winter sleep fits a cold season with no food. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 camel camel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 fit fit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 octopus octopus NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 spare spare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 fit fit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 dormouse dormouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 fits fit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 34 det _ _ 34 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fit** | present | a camel's wide feet | the sand | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Patient | | 2 | **fit** | present | a octopus's spare hearts | life | | the sea | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent life=Theme in sea=Trajectory | | 3 | **fit** | present | a dormouse's long winter sleep | | | | season | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sleep** | | a dormouse | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.lesson:3`. **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, R3-conj-first ×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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