--- title: Real biology: camels really do eat thorny desert plants; their tough… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Ca… · tree and pragmatics description: Real biology: camels really do eat thorny desert plants; their tough lips and mouths are not hurt by the thorns. Who acts: camels, thorns. 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 with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/75-justso-camel-hump/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/75-justso-camel-hump/) / 19 # Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 19 Real biology: camels really do eat thorny desert plants; their tough lips and mouths are not hurt by the thorns. **Who acts:** camels, thorns · **What happens:** eat, not hurt · **To what, where:** thorny desert plants, tough lips 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 (camels, thorns), 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:19 # text = Real biology: camels really do eat thorny desert plants; their tough lips and mouths are not hurt by the thorns. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 biology biology NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 4 camels camel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 really really ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 thorny thorny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 thorns thorn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 . . 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 | **eat** | present · do-support | camels *not said here* | thorny desert plants | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | | 2 | **not** **hurt** | present · passive | the thorns | plants's tough lips and mouths | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=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. 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