Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, sentence 19

Real biology: rhinos wallow in mud, which keeps them cool and protects their skin from sunburn and biting insects, so a real rhino would not "take off his skin" to cool down.

Who acts: rhinos, real rhino · What happens: wallow, keep, protect, bite, not take off, cool down · To what, where: mud, eyesight, skin

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, real rhino), 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	10 keeps	dislocated
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 wallow	punct
4	rhinos	rhino	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wallow	nsubj
5	wallow	wallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 keeps	parataxis
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 mud	case
7	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wallow	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 keeps	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 keeps	nsubj
10	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keeps	obj
12	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keeps	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 protects	cc
14	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 keeps	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 skin	nmod:poss
16	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 protects	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 sunburn	case
18	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 protects	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 insects	cc
20	biting	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 insects	amod
21	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sunburn	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	30 take	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rhino	det
25	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rhino	amod
26	rhino	rhino	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 take	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 take	advmod
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct
30	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 keeps	advcl
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 take	compound:prt
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 skin	nmod:poss
33	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	obj
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 skin	punct
35	to	to	PART	_	36 cool	mark
36	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 take	advcl
37	down	down	ADP	_	36 cool	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 biology	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wallow	present	rhinos		mud		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	keep	present		eyesight		Real biology dislocated; cool property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	protect	present		eyesight's skin		from sunburn and biting insects	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary from sunburn=Theme
4	bite	gerund					vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	not take off in a quote	would	a real rhino	Rhino's skin			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
6	cool down	to-infinitive	a real rhino not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:19.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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