--- title: Kangaroo rats can live without ever drinking: they get water from dr… — The desert: living with little water · tree and pragmatics description: Kangaroo rats can live without ever drinking: they get water from dry seeds and from burning their food, make very concentrated urine and plug their cool burrows by day. Who acts: Kangaroo rats, seeds. 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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 (Kangaroo rats, seeds), 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:13 # text = Kangaroo rats can live without ever drinking: they get water from dry seeds and from burning their food, make very concentrated urine and plug their cool burrows by day. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Kangaroo kangaroo NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 without without SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 7 advmod _ _ 7 drinking drink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 from from SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 advcl _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 21 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 concentrated concentrate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 urine urine NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 plug plug VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 burrows burrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | can | Kangaroo rats | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **drink** | gerund | Kangaroo rats *not said here* | | | | ever | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **get** | present | seeds *= seed* | water | | dry seeds | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from seed=Source | | 4 | **burn** | gerund | | seeds's food | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 5 | **make** | present | seeds *= seed* *not said here* | concentrated urine | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset urine=Product | | 6 | **plug** | present | seeds *= seed* *not said here* | seeds's cool burrows | | | day | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme burrow=Destination | 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:13`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/12/) - next →: [The desert: living with little water, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/)