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title: Five weeks later, in a heat wave, the Rhino takes off his skin, whic… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Five weeks later, in a heat wave, the Rhino takes off his skin, which then buttoned underneath like a raincoat, and leaves it on the beach while he bathes. Who acts: Rhino, skin. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin» of the books course of M
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# Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, sentence 2

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Five weeks later, in a heat wave, the Rhino takes off his skin, which then buttoned underneath like a raincoat, and leaves it on the beach while he bathes.

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**Who acts:** Rhino, skin · **What happens:** take off, button, leave, bathe · **To what, where:** skin, heat wave, beach

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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 (Rhino, skin), 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:2
# text = Five weeks later, in a heat wave, the Rhino takes off his skin, which then buttoned underneath like a raincoat, and leaves it on the beach while he bathes.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Rhino	Rhino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	buttoned	button	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
20	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	raincoat	raincoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	bathes	bathe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take off** | present | the Rhino | Rhino's skin |  | a heat wave |  | late *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 2 | **button** | past | Rhino's skin |  |  |  | then | like a raincoat; underneath *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | present | the Rhino *not said here* | skin |  | the beach |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on beach=Location |
| 4 | **bathe** | present | Rhino |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:2`.

**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, 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/).

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