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title: The poem at the end says the island is "off Cape Gardafui, / By the… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rh… · tree and pragmatics
description: The poem at the end says the island is "off Cape Gardafui, / By the Beaches of Socotra": real places at the tip of the Horn of Africa. Who acts: poem, island. 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
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# Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, sentence 20

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The poem at the end says the island is "off Cape Gardafui, / By the Beaches of Socotra": real places at the tip of the Horn of Africa.

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**Who acts:** poem, island · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (poem, island), 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:20
# text = The poem at the end says the island is "off Cape Gardafui, / By the Beaches of Socotra": real places at the tip of the Horn of Africa.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
13	Gardafui	Gardafui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=SYM:SYM:_
16	By	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Socotra	Socotra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Horn	horn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the poem at the end |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the island |  |  |  |  | off Cape Gardafui | tree rules |

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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:20`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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