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title: Real biology: dromedary camels (Arabia, North Africa) have one hump… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real biology: dromedary camels (Arabia, North Africa) have one hump and Bactrian camels (Central Asia) have two; people have kept camels to carry loads and give milk for thousands of years. Who acts: dromedary camels, Bactrian camels, people. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kiplin
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# Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 18

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Real biology: dromedary camels (Arabia, North Africa) have one hump and Bactrian camels (Central Asia) have two; people have kept camels to carry loads and give milk for thousands of years.

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**Who acts:** dromedary camels, Bactrian camels, people · **What happens:** have, keep, carry, give · **To what, where:** Real biology, two, camels, loads, milk

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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 (dromedary camels, Bactrian camels, people), 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:18
# text = Real biology: dromedary camels (Arabia, North Africa) have one hump and Bactrian camels (Central Asia) have two; people have kept camels to carry loads and give milk for thousands of years.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	biology	biology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	dromedary	dromedary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	Bactrian	bactrian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
28	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
34	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | dromedary camels | Real biology |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hump=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | Bactrian camels | two |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient |
| 3 | **keep** | present · perfect | people | camels |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | loads |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | infinitive | people *not said here* | milk |  |  |  | for thousands of years | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent milk=Theme for thousand=Asset |

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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:18`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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