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title: Rhino skin is very thick, up to about five centimetres in places; th… — The real animals of the Just So Stories: the wha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rhino skin is very thick, up to about five centimetres in places; the Indian rhino's deep folds make it look as if it wears plates of armour, and they let it bend and move. Who acts: Rhino skin, deep folds, skin, folds. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, ca
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# The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 11

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Rhino skin is very thick, up to about five centimetres in places; the Indian rhino's deep folds make it look as if it wears plates of armour, and they let it bend and move.

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**Who acts:** Rhino skin, deep folds, skin, folds · **What happens:** be, make, look, wear, let, bend · **To what, where:** skin, plates

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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 (Rhino skin, deep folds, skin, folds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:11
# text = Rhino skin is very thick, up to about five centimetres in places; the Indian rhino's deep folds make it look as if it wears plates of armour, and they let it bend and move.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Rhino	Rhino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rhino	rhino	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	folds	fold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	xcomp	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
28	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=36:cc
38	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Rhino skin |  |  |  |  | to five centimetres in places; thick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | the Indian rhino's deep folds | skin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | skin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **wear** | present | skin | plates of armour |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent plate=Theme |
| 5 | **let** | past | folds *= fold* | skin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **bend** | infinitive | skin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **move** | infinitive | skin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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