--- title: A camel stores fat (not water) in its hump, can go many days without… — Habitats and adaptations · tree and pragmatics description: A camel stores fat (not water) in its hump, can go many days without drinking, has wide feet for soft sand and can close its nostrils against blowing sand; a cactus stores water in its thick stem and has spines instead of leaves to lose less water. Who acts: camel, cactus. 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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 (camel, cactus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:027-habitats-and-adaptations.lesson:2 # text = A camel stores fat (not water) in its hump, can go many days without drinking, has wide feet for soft sand and can close its nostrils against blowing sand; a cactus stores water in its thick stem and has spines instead of leaves to lose less water. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 027-habitats-and-adaptations.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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 camel camel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stores store VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 4 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 hump hump NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj 17 without without SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 drinking drink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 close close VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 nostrils nostril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 against against ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 blowing blow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 33 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 cactus cactus NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 stores store VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 38 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 stem stem NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 45 spines spine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 46 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 48 case _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 46 fixed _ _ 48 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=48:acl 51 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 52 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=52:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 52 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **store** | present | a camel | fat | | camel's hump | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fat=Theme in hump=Location | | 2 | **go** | can | | | | | day | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **drink** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | present | | wide feet | | | | for soft sand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | | 5 | **close** | can | | camel's nostrils | | | | against blowing sand | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nostril=Patient | | 6 | **blow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **store** | present | a cactus | water | | camel's thick stem | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in stem=Location | | 8 | **have** | present | a cactus *not said here* | spines | | | | instead leaves | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spine=Patient | | 9 | **lose** | to-infinitive | a cactus *not said here* | less water | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality | | 10 | **stem** | | camel | | | | | | nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:world:027-habitats-and-adaptations.lesson:2`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [Habitats and adaptations, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/1/) - next →: [Habitats and adaptations, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/)