The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 8

Each year belongs to one animal, so the same animal comes back every twelve years.

Who acts: year, same animal · What happens: belong, come 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 (year, same animal), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belongs	nsubj
3	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 animal	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 animal	nummod
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belongs	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 comes	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 comes	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animal	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 animal	amod
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comes	nsubj
12	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 belongs	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 comes	advmod
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 years	det
15	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 comes	obl:unmarked
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 belongs	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	present	each year					to one animal	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	come back	present	the same animal				year		vn escape-51.1-1 «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:8.

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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