--- title: The story says every rhinoceros since has "great folds in his skin a… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rh… · tree and pragmatics description: The story says every rhinoceros since has "great folds in his skin and a very bad temper, all on account of the cake-crumbs inside". Who acts: story, rhinoceros. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, rhinoceros), 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:15 # text = The story says every rhinoceros since has "great folds in his skin and a very bad temper, all on account of the cake-crumbs inside". # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 rhinoceros rhinoceros NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 since since SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 folds fold NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 very very ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 crumbs crumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 28 inside inside ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the story | every rhinoceros and all account of the cake crumbs | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rhinoceros=Topic | | 2 | **have** | present | every rhinoceros and all account of the cake crumbs *not said here* | great folds and a bad temper | | story's skin | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fold=Patient | | 3 | **account** *in a quote* | | | the cake crumbs | | | | | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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](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:15`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3:…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/14/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3:…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/)