--- title: A camel's hump stores fat, not water; keeping fat in one place lets… — The desert: living with little water · tree and pragmatics description: A camel's hump stores fat, not water; keeping fat in one place lets heat escape from the rest of the body, and a thirsty camel can drink more than 100 litres in about 10 minutes. Who acts: hump, keeping, heat, thirsty camel. 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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 (hump, keeping, heat, thirsty camel), 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:6 # text = A camel's hump stores fat, not water; keeping fat in one place lets heat escape from the rest of the body, and a thirsty camel can drink more than 100 litres in about 10 minutes. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 camel camel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod:poss 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 hump hump NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound 5 stores store VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 11 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 csubj _ _ 12 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod 16 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 17 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 thirsty thirsty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 camel camel NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 32 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 34 advmod _ _ 33 than than ADP IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 litres litre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 about about ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **store** | present | a camel's hump | fat and water | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | gerund | | fat | | one place | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fat=Theme in place=Location | | 3 | **let** | present | keeping | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **escape** | infinitive | heat | | | the rest of the body | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from rest=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **drink** | can | a thirsty camel | 100 litres | | | minute | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:005-the-desert.lesson:6`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/5/) - next →: [The desert: living with little water, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/)