The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 7
The twelve zodiac animals are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig; eleven are real and one, the dragon, is not.
Who acts: twelve zodiac animals, eleven, one · What happens: be, dragon, not be · To what, where: rat
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 (twelve zodiac animals, eleven, one), 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 | 4 animals | det |
| 2 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 animals | nummod |
| 3 | zodiac | zodiac | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 animals | amod |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rat | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rat | cop |
| 6 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ox | punct |
| 8 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rat | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tiger | punct |
| 10 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rat | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rabbit | punct |
| 12 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rat | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dragon | punct |
| 14 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ox | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 snake | punct |
| 16 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dragon | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 horse | punct |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 snake | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 goat | punct |
| 20 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 snake | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 monkey | punct |
| 22 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 goat | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rooster | punct |
| 24 | rooster | rooster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 goat | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dog | punct |
| 26 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rooster | appos |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pig | cc |
| 28 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dog | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 real | punct |
| 30 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 real | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 real | cop |
| 32 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rat | parataxis |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 dragon | cc |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 dragon | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 dragon | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 dragon | det |
| 37 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 real | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rat | punct |
| 39 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rat | parataxis |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 is | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rat | 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 | the twelve zodiac animals | rat and ox and tiger and rabbit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | eleven | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dragon | one | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not be | present | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:7.
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): R3-conj-first ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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