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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, marks, stripes, South China tiger), 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:12 # text = People in China say the marks on a tiger's forehead look like the character for king; the stripes are really camouflage, and the South China tiger now survives only in zoos and reserves. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 forehead forehead NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 12 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 really really ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 camouflage camouflage NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=23:punct 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 tiger Tiger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 31 survives survive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 32 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 reserves reserve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | People in China | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **look** | present | the marks on a tiger's forehead | | | | | like the character for king | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** | present | the stripes | camouflage | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **survive** | present | the South China tiger | | | zoos and reserves | now | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zoo=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:12`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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