--- title: At the zoo a camel kneels with its humps wobbling, and many people t… — The desert: living with little water · tree and pragmatics description: At the zoo a camel kneels with its humps wobbling, and many people think the humps are water tanks; they are actually stores of fat, and a dromedary has one hump while a Bactrian camel has two. Who acts: camel, humps, many people, dromedary. 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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 (camel, humps, many people, dromedary), 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:5 # text = At the zoo a camel kneels with its humps wobbling, and many people think the humps are water tanks; they are actually stores of fat, and a dromedary has one hump while a Bactrian camel has two. # 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 ×2 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 camel camel NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 kneels kneel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 humps hump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 wobbling wobble VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 humps hump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 tanks tank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 ccomp _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 actually actually ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 stores store NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 parataxis _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 dromedary dromedary NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 hump hump NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 while while SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 Bactrian bactrian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 38 camel camel NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:conj 40 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 obj _ _ 41 . . 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 | **kneel** | present | a camel | | | the zoo | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at zoo=Location | | 2 | **wobble** | gerund | camel's humps | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | many people | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | the humps | water tanks | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | humps *= hump* | stores | | | | of fat; actually *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | present | a dromedary | one hump | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hump=Patient | | 7 | **have** | present | a Bactrian camel | two | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient | 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. 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