The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 17
Chickens come from the red junglefowl of southern China and South-East Asia, and pigs were tamed in China about 9,000 years ago.
Who acts: Chickens · What happens: come, tame · To what, where: red junglefowl, pigs, China
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 (Chickens), 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 | Chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 come | nsubj |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 junglefowl | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 junglefowl | det |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 junglefowl | amod |
| 6 | junglefowl | junglefowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 come | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 China | case |
| 8 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 China | amod |
| 9 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 junglefowl | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 South | cc |
| 11 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 China | conj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Asia | punct |
| 13 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Asia | compound |
| 14 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 China | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tamed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tamed | cc |
| 17 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tamed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tamed | aux:pass |
| 19 | tamed | tame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 come | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 China | case |
| 21 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 tamed | obl |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 9,000 | advmod |
| 23 | 9,000 | 9,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 19 tamed | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Chickens | the red junglefowl of southern China and South and East Asia | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from junglefowl=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | tame | past · passive | pigs | China | ago property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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:biology:382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs.lesson:17.
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. 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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