--- title: Real biology: camels can go many days without drinking because their… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Ca… · tree and pragmatics description: Real biology: camels can go many days without drinking because their bodies waste very little water, and a thirsty camel can gulp around a hundred litres in a few minutes. Who acts: camels, bodies, 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 (camels, bodies, thirsty 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:17 # text = Real biology: camels can go many days without drinking because their bodies waste very little water, and a thirsty camel can gulp around a hundred litres in a few minutes. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 biology biology NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 camels camel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 appos _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 without without SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 drinking drink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 waste waste VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 thirsty thirsty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 camel camel NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 gulp gulp VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 25 around around ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det 27 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 litres litre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obl 29 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | can | camels | | | | day | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **drink** | gerund | camels *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **waste** | present | fat's bodies | little water | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 4 | **gulp** | can | a thirsty camel | hundred litres | | | minute | | vn gobble-39.3 «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:books:075-justso-camel-hump.lesson:17`. **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, R7-rel-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: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2:…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/75-justso-camel-hump/16/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2:…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/75-justso-camel-hump/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/75-justso-camel-hump/)