Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, sentence 17

Real biology: rhinos eat only plants (grass, leaves, shoots), never cake; their horns are made of keratin, the same stuff as hair and fingernails.

Who acts: rhinos · What happens: eat, not cake, make · To what, where: plants, horns

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 (rhinos), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 biology	amod
2	biology	biology	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
4	rhinos	rhino	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 biology	parataxis
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 plants	advmod
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 grass	punct
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plants	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 leaves	punct
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grass	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shoots	punct
13	shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grass	conj
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 grass	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cake	punct
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 cake	advmod
17	cake	cake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 biology	punct
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 horns	nmod:poss
20	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 made	nsubj:pass
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 made	aux:pass
22	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 biology	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 keratin	case
24	keratin	keratin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stuff	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stuff	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stuff	amod
28	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 keratin	appos
29	as	as	ADP	_	30 hair	case
30	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stuff	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fingernails	cc
32	fingernails	fingernail	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hair	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 biology	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	rhinos	plants		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient
2	not cake	present	rhinos not said here			tree rules
3	make	present · passive		shoots's horns	of keratin	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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, 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:17.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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.

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