--- title: Every desert living thing is a water saver: the cactus stores it, th… — The desert: living with little water · tree and pragmatics description: Every desert living thing is a water saver: the cactus stores it, the kangaroo rat makes it from its food, the beetle catches it from fog and the flowers wait years as seeds for one good rain. Who acts: desert living thing, cactus, kangaroo rat, beetle. 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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 (desert living thing, cactus, kangaroo rat, beetle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:005-the-desert.lesson:1 # text = Every desert living thing is a water saver: the cactus stores it, the kangaroo rat makes it from its food, the beetle catches it from fog and the flowers wait years as seeds for one good rain. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 005-the-desert.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 ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 2 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 saver saver NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cactus cactus NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 stores store VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 kangaroo kangaroo NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 beetle beetle NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 fog fog NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 34 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 39 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nmod 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | every desert living thing | a water saver | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **store** | present | the cactus | thing | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | the kangaroo rat | thing | | thing's food | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset it=Product from food=Material | | 4 | **catch** | present | the beetle | thing | | fog | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from fog=Source | | 5 | **wait** | present | the flowers | | | | year | as seeds; for one good rain | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:005-the-desert.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The desert: living with little water, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/0/) - next →: [The desert: living with little water, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/)