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# Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump, sentence 4

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The poem after the story turns it into a lesson for us: if we have too little to do we "get the hump" and go grumpy, and the cure is to get outside and dig.

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**Who acts:** poem, we, cure · **What happens:** turn, have, do, get, go, be · **To what, where:** story, lesson, little, hump · **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 (poem, we, cure), 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:4
# text = The poem after the story turns it into a lesson for us: if we have too little to do we "get the hump" and go grumpy, and the cure is to get outside and dig.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
29	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
37	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **turn** | present | the poem after the story | story |  | a lesson for us |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into lesson=Trajectory |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | we | little |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | present | we | the hump |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hump=Stimulus |
| 5 | **go** | present | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | grumpy *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | the cure |  |  |  |  | get, outside *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **dig** | infinitive | the cure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: 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:4`.

**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, R6-punct-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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