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("Them that takes" is old country grammar for "those who take".) **Who acts:** rhyme, Parsee man, Parsee · **What happens:** take, bake, make, be, rhyme · **To what, where:** cakes, dreadful mistakes, old country grammar · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin» of the books 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 (rhyme, Parsee man, Parsee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:076-justso-rhinoceros-skin.lesson:11 # text = The Parsee's rhyme: "Them that takes cakes / Which the Parsee-man bakes / Makes dreadful mistakes." ("Them that takes" is old country grammar for "those who take".) # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 076-justso-rhinoceros-skin.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Parsee parsee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 rhyme rhyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 Them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 / / SYM , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 14 Parsee parsee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound 17 bakes bake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 18 / / SYM , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 20 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 conj _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 grammar grammar NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 33 nmod _ _ 37 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 38 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** *in a quote* | present | the Parsee's rhyme | cakes and bakes | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent cake=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **bake** *in a quote* | | the Parsee man | cakes and bakes | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | the Parsee man *not said here* | dreadful mistakes | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product | | 4 | **take** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | | old country grammar | | | | for those | tree rules | | 6 | **take** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **rhyme** | | the Parsee | | | | | | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:books:076-justso-rhinoceros-skin.lesson:11`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3:…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/10/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3:…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/)