--- title: Real biology: rhinos wallow in mud, which keeps them cool and protec… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rh… · tree and pragmatics description: Real biology: rhinos wallow in mud, which keeps them cool and protects their skin from sunburn and biting insects, so a real rhino would not "take off his skin" to cool down. Who acts: rhinos, real rhino. 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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, real rhino), 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:19 # text = Real biology: rhinos wallow in mud, which keeps them cool and protects their skin from sunburn and biting insects, so a real rhino would not "take off his skin" to cool down. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 biology biology NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 dislocated _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 rhinos rhino NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 wallow wallow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 14 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 sunburn sunburn NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 20 biting bite VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 amod _ _ 21 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 rhino rhino NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 31 off off ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 cool cool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 37 down down ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | 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 | **keep** | present | | eyesight | | | | Real biology *dislocated*; cool *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **protect** | present | | eyesight's skin | | | | from sunburn and biting insects | 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 | **not** **take off** *in a quote* | would | a real rhino | Rhino's skin | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | | 6 | **cool down** | to-infinitive | a real rhino *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:19`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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:…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/18/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3:…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/)