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title: The white rhino has a wide, square mouth for grazing grass and the b… — The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhin… · tree and pragmatics
description: The white rhino has a wide, square mouth for grazing grass and the black rhino a pointed, hooked lip for picking leaves; both are grey, and «white» may come from a word meaning «wide». Who acts: white rhino, pointed hooked lip, both, white. A sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: giraffe
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# The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes, sentence 9

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The white rhino has a wide, square mouth for grazing grass and the black rhino a pointed, hooked lip for picking leaves; both are grey, and «white» may come from a word meaning «wide».

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**Who acts:** white rhino, pointed hooked lip, both, white, word · **What happens:** have, hook, pick, be, come, mean · **To what, where:** wide square mouth, leaves, word, wide

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes» 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 (white rhino, pointed hooked lip, both, white), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos.lesson:9
# text = The white rhino has a wide, square mouth for grazing grass and the black rhino a pointed, hooked lip for picking leaves; both are grey, and «white» may come from a word meaning «wide».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos.lesson
# annotation = 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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rhino	rhino	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	grazing	grazing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	rhino	rhino	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	hooked	hook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
32	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	nsubj	_	_
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
40	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
41	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	obj	_	_
42	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the white rhino | a wide square mouth |  |  |  | for grazing grass and the black rhino and a pointed hooked lip | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient |
| 2 | **hook** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pick** | gerund | a pointed hooked lip *not said here* | leaves |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | both |  |  |  |  | grey *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | may | white |  |  | a word |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **mean** | gerund | a word *not said here* | wide |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wide=Topic |

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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.

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**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, R8-pos-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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