The desert: living with little water, sentence 5
At the zoo a camel kneels with its humps wobbling, and many people think the humps are water tanks; they are actually stores of fat, and a dromedary has one hump while a Bactrian camel has two.
Who acts: camel, humps, many people, dromedary, Bactrian camel · What happens: kneel, wobble, think, be, have · To what, where: zoo, water tanks, stores, one hump, two · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The desert: living with little water» 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 (camel, humps, many people, dromedary), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 zoo | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 zoo | det |
| 3 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kneels | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 camel | det |
| 5 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kneels | nsubj |
| 6 | kneels | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 wobbling | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 humps | nmod:poss |
| 9 | humps | hump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wobbling | nsubj |
| 10 | wobbling | wobble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 kneels | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 think | cc |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 think | nsubj |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kneels | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 humps | det |
| 17 | humps | hump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tanks | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 tanks | cop |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tanks | compound |
| 20 | tanks | tank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 think | ccomp |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stores | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stores | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 stores | cop |
| 24 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 25 stores | advmod |
| 25 | stores | store | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kneels | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 fat | case |
| 27 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stores | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 has | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 has | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 dromedary | det |
| 31 | dromedary | dromedary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 has | nsubj |
| 32 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kneels | conj |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 hump | nummod |
| 34 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 has | obj |
| 35 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 39 has | mark |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 camel | det |
| 37 | Bactrian | bactrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 camel | amod |
| 38 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 has | nsubj |
| 39 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 has | advcl |
| 40 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 has | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kneels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel | present | a camel | the zoo | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at zoo=Location | ||||
| 2 | wobble | gerund | camel's humps | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | many people | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | the humps | water tanks | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | humps = hump | stores | of fat; actually property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | have | present | a dromedary | one hump | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hump=Patient | ||||
| 7 | have | present | a Bactrian camel | two | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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:005-the-desert.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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