Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★, sentence 14
The twelve zodiac animals go round in order, Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig, so the same animal comes back every 12 years.
Who acts: twelve zodiac animals, same animal · What happens: go round, come back · To what, where: order
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tone detectives and number puzzles ★★★» 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 (twelve zodiac animals, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 animals | det |
| 2 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 animals | nummod |
| 3 | zodiac | zodiac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 animals | compound |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 order | case |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Rat | punct |
| 10 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 go | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ox | punct |
| 12 | Ox | Ox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rat | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Tiger | punct |
| 14 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rat | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Rabbit | punct |
| 16 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Rat | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Dragon | punct |
| 18 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rat | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Snake | punct |
| 20 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rat | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Horse | punct |
| 22 | Horse | Horse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rat | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Goat | punct |
| 24 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rat | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Monkey | punct |
| 26 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Rat | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Rooster | punct |
| 28 | Rooster | rooster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Rat | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Dog | punct |
| 30 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Rat | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Pig | punct |
| 32 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Rat | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 comes | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 comes | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 animal | det |
| 36 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 animal | amod |
| 37 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 comes | nsubj |
| 38 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | parataxis |
| 39 | back | back | ADV | _ | 38 comes | advmod |
| 40 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 years | det |
| 41 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 42 years | nummod |
| 42 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 comes | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go round | present | the twelve zodiac animals | order | round property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in order=Location | |||
| 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:chinese-street:031-olympiad-tone-and-number-puzzles.lesson:14.
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 ×1, R5-strong ×6, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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