--- title: Real biology: rhinos eat only plants (grass, leaves, shoots), never… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rh… · tree and pragmatics description: Real biology: rhinos eat only plants (grass, leaves, shoots), never cake; their horns are made of keratin, the same stuff as hair and fingernails. Who acts: rhinos. 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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 (rhinos), 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:17 # text = Real biology: rhinos eat only plants (grass, leaves, shoots), never cake; their horns are made of keratin, the same stuff as hair and fingernails. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 biology biology NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 rhinos rhino NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 9 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 shoots shoot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 cake cake VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 keratin keratin NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:conj 29 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 fingernails fingernail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | rhinos | plants | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | | 2 | **not** **cake** | present | rhinos *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present · passive | | shoots's horns | | | | of keratin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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. 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