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title: Real biology: a camel's hump is a store of fat, not water; when food… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real biology: a camel's hump is a store of fat, not water; when food is short the camel lives on that fat, and the hump goes floppy and small. Who acts: hump, food, camel. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump» of the books course of Mova's primar
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# Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 16

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Real biology: a camel's hump is a store of fat, not water; when food is short the camel lives on that fat, and the hump goes floppy and small.

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**Who acts:** hump, food, camel · **What happens:** be, live, go · **To what, where:** store, fat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hump, food, camel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:075-justso-camel-hump.lesson:16
# text = Real biology: a camel's hump is a store of fat, not water; when food is short the camel lives on that fat, and the hump goes floppy and small.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 075-justso-camel-hump.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
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	biology	biology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
32	floppy	floppy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a camel's hump | a store |  |  |  | of fat and water | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | food |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | present | the camel |  |  | that fat |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fat=Location |
| 4 | **go** | present | the hump |  |  |  |  | floppy *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:books:075-justso-camel-hump.lesson:16`.

**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. **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/).

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