--- title: Water buffaloes pulled ploughs through wet rice fields in southern C… — The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behi… · tree and pragmatics description: Water buffaloes pulled ploughs through wet rice fields in southern China for thousands of years; their wide hooves stop them sinking deep in mud. Who acts: Water buffaloes, wide hooves. A sentence of the lesson «The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs» of the biology course of M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs/) / 10 # The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 10 Water buffaloes pulled ploughs through wet rice fields in southern China for thousands of years; their wide hooves stop them sinking deep in mud. **Who acts:** Water buffaloes, wide hooves · **What happens:** pull, stop, sink · **To what, where:** ploughs, wet rice fields, buffaloes, mud This is a sentence of the lesson «The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs» of the biology 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 (Water buffaloes, wide hooves), 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:10 # text = Water buffaloes pulled ploughs through wet rice fields in southern China for thousands of years; their wide hooves stop them sinking deep in mud. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 buffaloes buffalo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 ploughs plough NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 hooves hoof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 sinking sink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 xcomp _ _ 23 deep deep ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | past | Water buffaloes | ploughs | | wet rice fields in southern China | | for thousands of years | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent plough=Theme for thousand=Beneficiary | | 2 | **stop** | present | buffaloes's wide hooves | buffaloes *= buffalo* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sink** | gerund | buffaloes's wide hooves *not said here* | | | mud | | deep *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:10`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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