China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China, sentence 15
The Chinese zodiac counts years in a 12-year cycle of animals: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig; the idea that your animal decides your character is tradition and fun, not science.
Who acts: Chinese zodiac, animal, idea · What happens: count, decide, be · To what, where: 12-year cycle, character, tradition
This is a sentence of the lesson «China: Mei's exaggerations and everyday China» of the history 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 zodiac, animal, idea), 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 zodiac | det |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 zodiac | amod |
| 3 | zodiac | zodiac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 counts | nsubj |
| 4 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 counts | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cycle | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cycle | det |
| 8 | 12-year | 12-year | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi | 9 cycle | amod |
| 9 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 counts | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 animals | case |
| 11 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cycle | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 rat | punct |
| 13 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 animals | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ox | punct |
| 15 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rat | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tiger | punct |
| 17 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ox | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rabbit | punct |
| 19 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ox | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dragon | punct |
| 21 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ox | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 snake | punct |
| 23 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dragon | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 horse | punct |
| 25 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 snake | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 goat | punct |
| 27 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 snake | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 monkey | punct |
| 29 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 goat | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 rooster | punct |
| 31 | rooster | rooster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 goat | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 dog | punct |
| 33 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rooster | appos |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 pig | cc |
| 35 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dog | conj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 idea | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 idea | det |
| 38 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 tradition | nsubj |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 decides | mark |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 animal | nmod:poss |
| 41 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 decides | nsubj |
| 42 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 idea | acl |
| 43 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 character | nmod:poss |
| 44 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 decides | obj |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 tradition | cop |
| 46 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 counts | parataxis |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 fun | cc |
| 48 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 tradition | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 science | punct |
| 50 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 51 science | advmod |
| 51 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 tradition | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 counts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | the Chinese zodiac | a 12-year cycle of animals and rat and ox and tiger and rabbit | year | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | decide | present | your animal | your character | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent character=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the idea | tradition and fun and science | tree rules |
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:history:060-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china.lesson:15.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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