The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 5

Water buffaloes pulled ploughs through flooded rice fields, wild horses were saved by zoos, and chickens and pigs were tamed in Asia thousands of years ago.

Who acts: Water buffaloes, zoos · What happens: pull, flood, save, tame · To what, where: ploughs, flooded rice fields, wild horses, chickens

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 (Water buffaloes, zoos), 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	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buffaloes	compound
2	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pulled	nsubj
3	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saved	conj
4	ploughs	plough	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pulled	obj
5	through	through	ADP	_	8 fields	case
6	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fields	amod
7	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fields	compound
8	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pulled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saved	punct
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 horses	amod
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 saved	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saved	aux:pass
13	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 zoos	case
15	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 saved	obl:agent
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tamed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tamed	cc
18	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tamed	nsubj:pass
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pigs	cc
20	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 chickens	conj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 tamed	aux:pass
22	tamed	tame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 saved	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 thousands	case
24	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 tamed	obl
25	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 ago	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 years	case
27	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 thousands	nmod
28	ago	ago	ADV	_	22 tamed	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull	past	Water buffaloes	ploughs	flooded rice fields		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plough=Theme
2	flood	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	save	past · passive	zoos	wild horses			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	tame	past · passive		chickens and pigs		Asia obl; 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:5.

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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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