The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 11
Rhino skin is very thick, up to about five centimetres in places; the Indian rhino's deep folds make it look as if it wears plates of armour, and they let it bend and move.
Who acts: Rhino skin, deep folds, skin, folds · What happens: be, make, look, wear, let, bend · To what, where: skin, plates
This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» of the biology 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, deep folds, skin, folds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rhino | Rhino | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 skin | compound |
| 2 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thick | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thick | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 thick | advmod |
| 5 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 centimetres | punct |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 centimetres | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 centimetres | case |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 five | advmod |
| 10 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 centimetres | nummod |
| 11 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thick | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 places | case |
| 13 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 centimetres | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rhino | det |
| 16 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rhino | amod |
| 17 | rhino | rhino | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 folds | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 rhino | case |
| 19 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 folds | amod |
| 20 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 make | nsubj |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thick | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 make | xcomp |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 wears | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 wears | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 wears | nsubj |
| 27 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 look | advcl |
| 28 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 wears | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 armour | case |
| 30 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 plates | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 let | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 let | cc |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 let | nsubj |
| 34 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 make | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 let | obj |
| 36 | bend | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 let | xcomp |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 move | cc |
| 38 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 bend | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Rhino skin | to five centimetres in places; thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | the Indian rhino's deep folds | skin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | skin not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | wear | present | skin | plates of armour | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent plate=Theme | ||||
| 5 | let | past | folds = fold | skin | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bend | infinitive | skin not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | move | infinitive | skin not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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, 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:biology:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:11.
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 ×1, R5-strong ×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.
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