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title: The Djinn explains that the hump lets him work three days without ea… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Djinn explains that the hump lets him work three days without eating, to make up for the three days he missed; the Camel joins the Three but has never caught up, and has never learned to behave. Who acts: Djinn, hump, Humph, Camel. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: 
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# Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 3

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The Djinn explains that the hump lets him work three days without eating, to make up for the three days he missed; the Camel joins the Three but has never caught up, and has never learned to behave.

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**Who acts:** Djinn, hump, Humph, Camel · **What happens:** explain, let, work, eat, make up, miss · **To what, where:** Humph, three days, Three · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Djinn, hump, Humph, 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:3
# text = The Djinn explains that the hump lets him work three days without eating, to make up for the three days he missed; the Camel joins the Three but has never caught up, and has never learned to behave.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Djinn	djinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	explains	explain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj
12	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	joins	join	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	behave	behave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | the Djinn |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | present | the hump | Humph |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | infinitive | Humph *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund | Humph *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make up** | to-infinitive | Humph *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **miss** | past | Humph | the three days *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer day=Stimulus |
| 7 | **join** | present | the Camel | the Three |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient |
| 8 | **not** **catch up** | present · perfect | the Camel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **not** **learn** | present · perfect | the Camel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 10 | **behave** | to-infinitive | the Camel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |

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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:3`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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