The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 12
People in China say the marks on a tiger's forehead look like the character for king; the stripes are really camouflage, and the South China tiger now survives only in zoos and reserves.
Who acts: People, marks, stripes, South China tiger · What happens: say, look, be, survive · To what, where: camouflage, zoos · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs» 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 (People, marks, stripes, South China tiger), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 China | case |
| 3 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 People | nmod |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 marks | det |
| 6 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 look | nsubj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 forehead | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tiger | det |
| 9 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 tiger | case |
| 11 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marks | nmod |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 character | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 character | det |
| 15 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 character | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 camouflage | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stripes | det |
| 20 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 camouflage | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 camouflage | cop |
| 22 | really | really | ADV | _ | 23 camouflage | advmod |
| 23 | camouflage | camouflage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 survives | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 survives | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tiger | det |
| 27 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 tiger | compound |
| 28 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 tiger | compound |
| 29 | tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 survives | nsubj |
| 30 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 survives | advmod |
| 31 | survives | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 camouflage | conj |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 zoos | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 zoos | case |
| 34 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 survives | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 reserves | cc |
| 36 | reserves | reserve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 zoos | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | People in China | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look | present | the marks on a tiger's forehead | like the character for king | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the stripes | camouflage | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | survive | present | the South China tiger | zoos and reserves | now | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zoo=Location |
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:382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs.lesson:12.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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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