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title: Rhinos wallow in mud, which cools them and protects their skin from… — The real animals of the Just So Stories: the wha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rhinos wallow in mud, which cools them and protects their skin from sunburn and biting flies; no rhino ever took its skin off, and cake crumbs do not cause folds. Who acts: Rhinos, mud, rhino, cake crumbs. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, le
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# The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 12

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Rhinos wallow in mud, which cools them and protects their skin from sunburn and biting flies; no rhino ever took its skin off, and cake crumbs do not cause folds.

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**Who acts:** Rhinos, mud, rhino, cake crumbs · **What happens:** wallow, cool, protect, bite, take off, not cause · **To what, where:** mud, plates, skin, folds

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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 (Rhinos, mud, rhino, cake crumbs), 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:12
# text = Rhinos wallow in mud, which cools them and protects their skin from sunburn and biting flies; no rhino ever took its skin off, and cake crumbs do not cause folds.
# 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 ×3, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Rhinos	rhino	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wallow	wallow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:acl:relcl
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
10	protects	protect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc
16	biting	bite	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	rhino	rhino	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc
28	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
30	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj
33	folds	fold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **wallow** | present | Rhinos |  |  | mud |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **cool** | present | mud | plates *= plate* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **protect** | present | mud *not said here* | plates's skin |  |  |  | from sunburn and biting flies | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary from sunburn=Theme |
| 4 | **bite** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take off** | past | no rhino | rhino's skin |  |  | ever |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **cause** | present · do-support | cake crumbs | folds |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fold=Patient |

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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 ×3, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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