The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 15
The Chinese character for the eighth animal can mean goat, sheep or ram, so both are right.
Who acts: Chinese character, both · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: goat
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 (Chinese character, both), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 character | det |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 character | amod |
| 3 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 animal | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 animal | det |
| 6 | eighth | eighth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 animal | amod |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 character | nmod |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 mean | aux |
| 9 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mean | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sheep | punct |
| 12 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 goat | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 ram | cc |
| 14 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goat | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 right | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 right | advmod |
| 17 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 right | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 right | cop |
| 19 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mean | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | can | the Chinese character for the eighth animal | goat and sheep or ram | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | both | right property | tree rules |
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:15.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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