The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 3
The old stories are legends: the rat did not really win a race by riding on the ox's back.
Who acts: old stories, rat · What happens: be, not win, ride · To what, where: legends, race, back
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 (old stories, rat), 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 stories | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stories | amod |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 legends | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 legends | cop |
| 5 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 win | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rat | det |
| 8 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 win | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 win | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 win | advmod |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 win | advmod |
| 12 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 legends | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 race | det |
| 14 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 win | obj |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 riding | mark |
| 16 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 win | advcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 back | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ox | det |
| 19 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 back | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 ox | case |
| 21 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 riding | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 legends | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the old stories | legends | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not win | past · do-support | the rat | a race | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ride | gerund | the rat not said here | the ox's back | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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:3.
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 ×4. 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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