--- title: Some people think the Chinese alligator helped inspire dragon legend… — China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the… · tree and pragmatics description: Some people think the Chinese alligator helped inspire dragon legends, but nobody knows for sure; Chinese dragons bring rain and live in rivers, and old books describe a river dragon called tuo. Who acts: people, Chinese alligator, nobody, Chinese dragons. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Chinese alligator, nobody, Chinese dragons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.lesson:18 # text = Some people think the Chinese alligator helped inspire dragon legends, but nobody knows for sure; Chinese dragons bring rain and live in rivers, and old books describe a river dragon called tuo. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 alligator alligator NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 inspire inspire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 9 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 legends legend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 14 nsubj _ _ 14 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 describe describe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 tuo tuo NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 xcomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **think** *speech: other* | present | some people | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **help** | past | the Chinese alligator | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **inspire** | infinitive | the Chinese alligator *not said here* | dragon legends | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus legend=Experiencer | | 4 | **know** | present | nobody | | | | | for sure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **bring** | present | Chinese dragons | rain | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rain=Theme | | 6 | **live** | present | Chinese dragons *not said here* | | | rivers | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location | | 7 | **describe** | present | old books | a river dragon | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme | | 8 | **call** | participle | a river dragon *not said here* | tuo | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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