Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants, sentence 8

Camels can go many days without drinking; their humps store fat, not water, and a thirsty camel can drink over a hundred litres in about ten minutes.

Who acts: Camels, humps, thirsty camel · What happens: go, drink, store · To what, where: fat, hundred litres

This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants» 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 (Camels, humps, thirsty 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	Camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	obl
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 drinking	mark
7	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 go	advcl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 store	punct
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 humps	nmod:poss
10	humps	hump	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 store	nsubj
11	store	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 go	parataxis
12	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 store	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 water	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 water	advmod
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fat	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 drink	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drink	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 camel	det
19	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 camel	amod
20	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drink	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 drink	aux
22	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 store	conj
23	over	over	ADV	_	25 hundred	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hundred	det
25	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 litres	nummod
26	litres	litre	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 drink	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 minutes	case
28	about	about	ADV	_	29 ten	advmod
29	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 minutes	nummod
30	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 drink	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	go	can	Camels		day	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drink	gerund	Camels not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	store	present	Camels's humps	fat and water		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme
4	drink	can	a thirsty camel	hundred litres	minute	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=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, 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:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson:8.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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