--- title: That, says the story, is why rhinos have baggy, folded skin and a ve… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rh… · tree and pragmatics description: That, says the story, is why rhinos have baggy, folded skin and a very bad temper; it is a funny revenge tale with a little lesson: "Them that takes cakes ... makes dreadful mistakes." Who acts: That, skin, folds. 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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 (That, skin, folds), 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:4 # text = That, says the story, is why rhinos have baggy, folded skin and a very bad temper; it is a funny revenge tale with a little lesson: "Them that takes cakes ... makes dreadful mistakes." # 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 ×1 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 rhinos rhino NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 baggy baggy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 folded fold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 revenge revenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 33 Them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 ... ... PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 39 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | the story | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | That | | | | | have *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **fold** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | skin | a funny revenge tale | | | | with a little lesson | tree rules | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | present | folds *= fold* | cakes | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | present | | dreadful mistakes | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=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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