The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 16
The Monkey King is a story hero, but rhesus macaques really live wild in China and quickly learn to grab food and phones from tourists.
Who acts: Monkey King, rhesus macaques · What happens: be, live, learn, grab · To what, where: story hero, China, food, tourists
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 (Monkey King, rhesus macaques), 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 King | det |
| 2 | Monkey | monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | compound |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hero | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hero | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hero | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hero | compound |
| 7 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 live | cc |
| 10 | rhesus | rhesus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 macaques | compound |
| 11 | macaques | macaque | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 live | nsubj |
| 12 | really | really | ADV | _ | 13 live | advmod |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hero | conj |
| 14 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 live | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 China | case |
| 16 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 live | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 learn | cc |
| 18 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 19 learn | advmod |
| 19 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 live | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 grab | mark |
| 21 | grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 learn | xcomp |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grab | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 phones | cc |
| 24 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 food | conj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 tourists | case |
| 26 | tourists | tourist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 grab | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hero | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Monkey King | a story hero | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | rhesus macaques | China | wild property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in china=Location | |||
| 3 | learn | present | rhesus macaques not said here | quickly property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | grab | to-infinitive | rhesus macaques not said here | food and phones | tourists | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from tourist=Source |
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:16.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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