The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 4
But behind each sign is a real animal with its own true story.
What happens: be · To what, where: real animal, sign
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 animal | cc |
| 2 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 4 sign | case |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 sign | det |
| 4 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 animal | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 animal | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 animal | det |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 animal | amod |
| 8 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 story | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 story | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 story | amod |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 story | amod |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 animal | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 animal | 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 | a real animal | each sign | with sign's own true story | 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:4.
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): no change. 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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