The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 6
So the zodiac is a good way to learn real biology: enjoy the legend, then ask what the real animal is like.
Who acts: zodiac · What happens: be, learn, enjoy, ask · To what, where: good way, real biology, legend
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 (zodiac), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 way | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 zodiac | det |
| 3 | zodiac | zodiac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 way | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 learn | mark |
| 9 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 way | acl |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 biology | amod |
| 11 | biology | biology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 learn | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 enjoy | punct |
| 13 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 legend | det |
| 15 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 enjoy | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ask | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 ask | advmod |
| 18 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 enjoy | conj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 ask | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 animal | det |
| 21 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 animal | amod |
| 22 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 what | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 like | cop |
| 24 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 what | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the zodiac | a good way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | real biology | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biology=Topic | |||||
| 3 | enjoy | infinitive | the legend | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer legend=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | is | present | like property | 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:6.
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 ×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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