The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals, sentence 11
Camels can go days without water; the hump stores fat, not water, their bodies lose little water, long eyelashes and closable nostrils keep sand out, and wide feet do not sink.
Who acts: Camels, hump, bodies, long eyelashes, wide feet · What happens: go, store, lose, keep out, not sink · To what, where: fat, little water, sand
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals» 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, hump, bodies, long eyelashes), 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 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | obl |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 fat | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hump | det |
| 9 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stores | nsubj |
| 10 | stores | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 11 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stores | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 water | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 water | advmod |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fat | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lose | punct |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lose | nsubj |
| 18 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 water | amod |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lose | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eyelashes | punct |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 eyelashes | amod |
| 23 | eyelashes | eyelash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 keep | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 nostrils | cc |
| 25 | closable | closable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 nostrils | amod |
| 26 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 eyelashes | conj |
| 27 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lose | conj |
| 28 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 keep | obj |
| 29 | out | out | ADV | _ | 27 keep | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sink | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sink | cc |
| 32 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 feet | amod |
| 33 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 sink | nsubj |
| 34 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 sink | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 sink | advmod |
| 36 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 keep | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | can | Camels | day | without water | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | store | present | the hump | fat and water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | present | fat's bodies | little water | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | keep out | present | long eyelashes and closable nostrils | sand | out property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Theme | |||
| 5 | not sink | present · do-support | wide feet | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.lesson:11.
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): R7-rel-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.
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