--- title: Real biology: rhinos have poor eyesight but a very good sense of sme… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rh… · tree and pragmatics description: Real biology: rhinos have poor eyesight but a very good sense of smell and hearing, which may be why some (like the black rhino) charge at things that startle them. Who acts: rhinos, good sense, some, things. 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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, good sense, some, things), 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:18 # text = Real biology: rhinos have poor eyesight but a very good sense of smell and hearing, which may be why some (like the black rhino) charge at things that startle them. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 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 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 6 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 eyesight eyesight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 hearing hearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 19 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 21 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 acl:relcl _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 29 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 rhino rhino NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 charge charge VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 startle startle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | rhinos | poor eyesight but a good sense of smell and hearing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyesight=Patient | | 2 | **is** | may | a good sense of smell and hearing | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **charge** | present | some | | | things | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at thing=Trajectory | | 4 | **startle** | present | things | eyesight | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | | 5 | **sense** | | | smell and hearing | | | | | nom sense «cognition 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:18`. **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, R8-pos-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:…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/17/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3:…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/)