Animals and "what animal are you?", sentence 4
Chinese dragons, lóng, are lucky and wise and bring rain — not the fire-breathing baddies of English stories.
Who acts: Chinese dragons · What happens: be, bring, breathe · To what, where: rain, baddies
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 (Chinese dragons), 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 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dragons | amod |
| 2 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lucky | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lóng | punct |
| 4 | lóng | lóng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dragons | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dragons | punct |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lucky | cop |
| 7 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wise | cc |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lucky | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bring | cc |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lucky | conj |
| 12 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 fire | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 fire | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rain | nmod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 breathing | punct |
| 18 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 lucky | conj |
| 19 | baddies | baddie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 breathing | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 stories | case |
| 21 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stories | amod |
| 22 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 baddies | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lucky | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Chinese dragons and lóng | lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Chinese dragons and lóng not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | bring | present | Chinese dragons and lóng not said here | rain the fire | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rain=Theme | ||||
| 4 | breathe | gerund | Chinese dragons and lóng not said here | baddies of English stories | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baddie=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:4.
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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