The desert: living with little water, sentence 6

A camel's hump stores fat, not water; keeping fat in one place lets heat escape from the rest of the body, and a thirsty camel can drink more than 100 litres in about 10 minutes.

Who acts: hump, keeping, heat, thirsty camel · What happens: store, keep, let, escape, drink · To what, where: fat, one place, rest, 100 litres

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 (hump, keeping, heat, 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	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	_	5 stores	punct
11	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 lets	csubj
12	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keeping	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 place	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 place	nummod
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keeping	obl
16	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stores	parataxis
17	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 escape	nsubj
18	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 lets	xcomp
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 rest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rest	det
21	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 escape	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 body	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 body	det
24	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rest	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 drink	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 drink	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 camel	det
28	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 camel	amod
29	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 drink	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 drink	aux
31	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 lets	conj
32	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	34 100	advmod
33	than	than	ADP	_	32 more	fixed
34	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 litres	nummod
35	litres	litre	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 drink	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 minutes	case
37	about	about	ADV	_	38 10	advmod
38	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	39 minutes	nummod
39	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 drink	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stores	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	store	present	a camel's hump	fat and water			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme
2	keep	gerund		fat	one place		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fat=Theme in place=Location
3	let	present	keeping				tree rules
4	escape	infinitive	heat		the rest of the body		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from rest=Initial_Location
5	drink	can	a thirsty camel	100 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:005-the-desert.lesson:6.

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. 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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