--- title: Namib fog-basking beetles stand head-down in the morning sea fog so… — The desert: living with little water · tree and pragmatics description: Namib fog-basking beetles stand head-down in the morning sea fog so that drops collect on their backs and run down to their mouths. Who acts: Namib basking beetles, drops. 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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 (Namib basking beetles, drops), 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:10 # text = Namib fog-basking beetles stand head-down in the morning sea fog so that drops collect on their backs and run down to their mouths. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Namib Namib PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 2 fog fog NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 basking bask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 down down ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 fog fog NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 15 so so SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 collect collect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nmod 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 24 down down ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 . . 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 | **bask** | gerund | | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **stand down** | present | Namib basking beetles | head | | the morning sea fog | | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in fog=Destination | | 3 | **collect** | present | that drops | | | drops's backs | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **run down** | present | that drops *not said here* | | | | | to drops's mouths *result*; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mouth=Result | 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:10`. **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 ×3, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The desert: living with little water, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/8/) - next →: [The desert: living with little water, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/)