More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats, sentence 5

A camel's hump stores fat, not water; when food is short the camel uses the fat and the hump goes floppy.

Who acts: hump, food, camel · What happens: store, be, use, go · To what, where: fat

This is a sentence of the lesson «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» of the biology 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 (hump, food, camel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 camel	det
2	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hump	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 camel	case
4	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stores	nsubj
5	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stores	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 water	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 water	advmod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fat	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 short	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 short	advmod
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 short	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 short	cop
14	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 uses	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 camel	det
16	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 uses	nsubj
17	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stores	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fat	det
19	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 uses	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 goes	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hump	det
22	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 goes	nsubj
23	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 uses	conj
24	floppy	floppy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 goes	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stores	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	store	present	a camel's hump	fat and water		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme
2	is	present	food		short property	tree rules
3	use	present	the camel	the fat		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Patient
4	go	present	the hump		floppy property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, 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:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson:5.

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. 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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