Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 17
The zodiac year begins at Chinese New Year (late January or February), so someone born in early January belongs to the year before.
Who acts: zodiac year, someone · What happens: begin, bear, belong
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals and "what animal are you?"» of the chinese street 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 year, someone), 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 | 3 year | det |
| 2 | zodiac | zodiac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 year | compound |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begins | nsubj |
| 4 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Year | case |
| 6 | Chinese | Chinese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Year | compound |
| 7 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Year | amod |
| 8 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 begins | obl |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 January | punct |
| 10 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 January | amod |
| 11 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Year | appos |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 February | cc |
| 13 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 January | conj |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 January | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 belongs | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 belongs | advmod |
| 17 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 belongs | nsubj |
| 18 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 someone | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 January | case |
| 20 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 January | amod |
| 21 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 born | obl |
| 22 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 begins | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 year | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 year | det |
| 25 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 belongs | obl |
| 26 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 belongs | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | the zodiac year | at Chinese New Year | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | bear | participle | january | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | belong | present | someone | year | before property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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:chinese-street:019-animals-and-your-zodiac-animal.lesson:17.
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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