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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 (twelve animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs.lesson:0 # text = On a Chinese zodiac poster there are twelve animals: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs.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): R3-conj-first ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 zodiac zodiac NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 poster poster NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 6 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 7 expl _ _ 7 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 11 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 ox ox NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 rooster rooster NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | twelve animals | | | a Chinese zodiac poster; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on poster=Location | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-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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