Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, sentence 18

Real biology: rhinos have poor eyesight but a very good sense of smell and hearing, which may be why some (like the black rhino) charge at things that startle them.

Who acts: rhinos, good sense, some, things · What happens: have, be, charge, startle, sense · To what, where: poor eyesight, things, eyesight, smell

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, good sense, some, things), 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 have	punct
4	rhinos	rhino	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 biology	parataxis
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyesight	amod
7	eyesight	eyesight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 sense	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sense	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 good	advmod
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sense	amod
12	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eyesight	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 smell	case
14	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sense	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hearing	cc
16	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smell	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 why	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 why	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 why	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 why	cop
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 sense	acl:relcl
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 charge	nsubj
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 rhino	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	27 rhino	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rhino	det
26	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 rhino	amod
27	rhino	rhino	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 some	nmod
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 rhino	punct
29	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 why	ccomp
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 things	case
31	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 charge	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 startle	nsubj
33	startle	startle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 things	acl:relcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 startle	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 biology	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	rhinos	poor eyesight but a good sense of smell and hearing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyesight=Patient
2	is	may	a good sense of smell and hearing			why property	tree rules
3	charge	present	some		things		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at thing=Trajectory
4	startle	present	things	eyesight			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
5	sense			smell and hearing			nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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:18.

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 ×2, 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.

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